Good, he thought. Almost there.
The truth emerged. A segment is just a byte-range request (e.g., “Give me bytes 2,000,000,001 to 2,500,000,000 of this file” ). The server, tired of free users, had started refusing those ranged requests mid-download. Or, more simply, one of his 20 parallel connections had hit a timeout because the server’s response was too slow. The segment wasn’t “loaded” because the server never sent the data. jdownloader segment not loaded
Five minutes later:
One Tuesday evening, he set it to download a massive 50GB file from a slow, free-tier file hoster. He enabled 20 chunks (segments) per download, a trick to speed things up. Then he went to bed, dreaming of his completed archive. Good, he thought