Walrus, thanks fo rthe hint on the RAM.

When you write 'sd' you mean the non-removable sd? as I have a blank 6gig card in the expansion bay....

Thanks, I may experiment with that later.

as it was I left this running last night in the expanded swap/virtual memory setup I posted earlier and found that the Alps had downloaded successfully.

our household net traffic is pretty heavy, perhaps sending everyone to bed and using the host during the late hours made it possible.