[gentoo-dev] Portage on dial-up connection?

[Sami Al-Sayed]

Hello,

Just a quick query about Gentoo/Portage:

Is it possible to use Portage with a standard (and pretty slow) PPP dial-up 
modem connection (ie. 56K)? Does Portage support resume of broken downloads? 

I have a free dial-up internet connection which (annoyingly) disconnects 
itself after every 2 hours of being connected, and would like to give Gentoo 
a try, as I have so far not been completely satisfied with the various binary 
distributions I've tried and their package management systems. I am also a 
self-confessed optimisation fanatic :-)

Thanks for your time.

Regards,

Sami Knudsen Al-Sayed