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On Saturday 11 June 2005 06:46 pm, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Has anyone else had trouble downloading large files?  I have the
> Speedfactory Platinum DSL (3MB down).  Most of the time, anything that I
> download is relatively small (RPM's, email, etc.), but occasionally I
> download larger files (ISO's).  Several times, when I've tried to
> download ISO's (via HTTP or FTP), they just stop downloading.  I've
> tried using Firefox (on Linux and Win32), gFTP, command line ftp (Linux
> and Win32), ncftp, and filezilla, and I've tried from a number of
> mirrors.  Each time, it stops at the exact same point (this time,
> 1.7MB).  Regardless of the client, it will get to 1.7MB, and just stop
> downloading (the download rate will start going down until it eventually
> reaches 0).  I can log into one of our webservers and download it [to
> there] via ftp with no problem, and then I can scp it from the webserver
> to my local machine.  I know the following:
>  - My Internet connection is up (because my IM client [gaim] would
> complain loudly if it was not)
>  - My Internet connection is still fast (per dsltestspeed.com, I've got
> 2.4MBs down and 279.1kbps up, with a bittorrent download going [which
> seems to work])
>  - There is sufficient space on the target drive (~300GB avail, 700MB file)
>  - The ftp server isn't down (because I can download from it to my
> webserver)
>
> Has anyone else experienced this, or have any idea what may be causing
> it?  For most of my ISO downloads I can get around it by using
> bittorrent, but it's caused a problem with yum from time to time
> (glibc-common).
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