Problematical downloads.

Advocate · Post by **Advocate** » 2004-10-16 07:38pm

Okay, I'm hoping someone here can help me out a bit with this strange problem I've been getting.

My downloads, for some reason, keep timing out after 10-20 seconds or so. If its a small file, like under 1 mb or so, the download completes before the timeout occurs, but anything larger and it fucks up bad.

I've tried IE, I've tried Netscape, I've tried Firefox. No matter WHAT Client I use, it ALWAYS times out after 20 seconds or so. Even using Download Accelerator is still screws up. Getright has the same problem.

Webpages, even those multi-megabyte ones, load fine - its just the downloads. Can someone help me out here please?

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2004-10-16 10:26pm

From any server, or a particular one? What file formats? Does the same thing occur with FTP/P2P programs? Are you using any firewalls or NAT?

Advocate · Post by **Advocate** » 2004-10-17 12:08am

Any server. I've tried downloading almost everything under the sun - file format appears to be irrelevant. I'm getting timeouts on .doc's. Same problem.

Problem does NOT occur using FTP or P2P programs, and no, I'm not running a firewall.

Once again, any help would be much appreciated. This is driving me absolutely nuts.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-10-17 12:20am

It takes you more than 20 seconds to download a .doc? Are you on dialup?

Advocate · Post by **Advocate** » 2004-10-17 12:22am

No, I'm on ADSL. And yeah, I tried downloading a .doc with an attached file from my friend's server. Didn't work either.

EDIT: File types tried: .jpg, .exe, .zip, .rar, .bmp, .mp3, .doc,.......you get the idea. As long as it takes more than 20 seconds or so, *poof*. Download screwed.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-10-17 02:34am

Advocate wrote:No, I'm on ADSL. And yeah, I tried downloading a .doc with an attached file from my friend's server. Didn't work either.

EDIT: File types tried: .jpg, .exe, .zip, .rar, .bmp, .mp3, .doc,.......you get the idea. As long as it takes more than 20 seconds or so, *poof*. Download screwed.

Ah, okay, attached file. Never mind then.

Sounds like you have a problem :s Yesterday I had something similar, but it only was with one certain file, and after retrying a few times it finally worked.
No clue what I did

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2004-10-17 02:43am

if u're from malaysia, then you're on streamyx right

quite a lot of people have reported the same problem - TMNet fucked up somewhere.

it's bad enough they're routing all http out of malaysia through a transparent proxy to "save bandwidth" on the international link and fucking that one up too.

i can't remember the exact treads but lowyat.net forums had some info on this...

edit: a relevent tread - just so you know it's not just you, it's half of malaysia. dammit i can't wait till Jaring gets a broadband license...

click here

Advocate · Post by **Advocate** » 2004-10-17 03:32am

Ah, so its not just me. GG. My ISP sucks.

Thanks, Praxis, AniThyng. I appreciate it.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2004-10-17 12:14pm

Just an idea. On FireFox, download the "Bandiwidth Tester" extension, and run it. Are you able to download all the packets?

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-10-17 02:11pm

Yes sounds an awful lot like proxy problems, they probably reroute your connection to multiple different ones, which switch from time to time. P2P doesn't have a problem with this 'cause it usually downloads one small chunk at a time, and it doesn't matter if one get lost since the client will simply say it doesn't have it yet and accept it again if someone else has that piece.

You don't want to try downloading through the series of proxies I'm usually behind either, it would be hell if I wouldn't have control over it...

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-10-17 02:57pm

You could try some sort of download manager like Getright. Then you'd be able to resume them....

Sokartawi · Post by **Sokartawi** » 2004-10-17 04:29pm

Every 20 seconds?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-10-17 05:52pm

Sokartawi wrote:Every 20 seconds?

You set it to automatic...

Advocate · Post by **Advocate** » 2004-10-18 04:41am

Sharp-kun : Thanks for the tip, but auto-resume doesn't even work unless I manually shut down the connection and restart it again.

Anyway, this has gotten academic. I called up my ISP to yell at them earlier today and the "promised" me that they're doing all they can to fix it.

So...yeah. No downloads for me.