I am getting the same absolute aggravating behavior in
2.1.1. This happens even when I am downloading from
the SAME JERK that keeps interrupting the download.
It most often happens when the other end kills the download.
You then get a totally dead connection and have to kill it
yourself later. If you do the kill, it will not resume where it
left off. This has happened to me repeatedly in downloading
large mpegs. It is truly aggravating as heck.