# Any way to temporarily kill a PC's network connection?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 1, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-temporarily-kill-a-pcs-network-connection/633341 "2012-09-01T06:01:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-temporarily-kill-a-pcs-network-connection/633341/21 "2012-09-03T12:18:46Z")

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Won’t your download timeout anyway, when it finds there is no internet connection?

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**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-temporarily-kill-a-pcs-network-connection/633341/22 "2012-09-03T12:37:44Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> Won’t your download timeout anyway, when it finds there is no internet connection?

If you use a download manager it doesn’t, it can resume. Bittorrent also can be randomly interrupted and resume fine, every piece downloaded is hash checked to ensure it wasn’t damaged.

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