Download problems...

[GWSimulations]

Some downloads, usually the ones on an IP address (eg. 6400-0494-8945) Just bring up the download box, wait a while, and then bring up an error message. Is this just my machine, or has it happened to you?

[pete]

I think it's due to very heavy traffic on that server. I have had several reports of this but I have also checked the files myself several times during peak & I can always get a connection. Right now that server is doing 160GB per day transfer which is a pile by anybodies standards.
It's fairly obvious that some sort of download speed restriction is going to have to be brought in. It will slow downloads for people with cable but increase access for the majority.

[pete]

I've been keeping my eye on this & every day looking to see if something can be done to improve things. Things seemed really bad this morning.

Eventually - after much head scratching - searching server logs - looking at structure & some experimentation & mass d/l blocking - I simply restarted the apache web server & hey presto! Things are seeming to connect MUCH faster.

I've tried several just now with almost instant connections to the files - using dial up. Any further feedback is welcome.

Thanks.

[MickeyMouse]

I'm having a simular problem, but all downloads to 63.217.28.218 take forever to connect and sometimes they don't at all (404 message).  Once connected, the downloads come in at a resonable speed (40KB/sec).  Never have a problem with the forums until this morning, it took a long time for this thread to show up.

[MickeyMouse]

FYI - It's not a network bandwidth issue, here's my tracert to you:

J:\>tracert 63.217.28.218

Tracing route to 63-217-28-218.sdsl.cais.net [63.217.28.218]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

 1    10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  xx.xx.xx.xx
 2    70 ms   160 ms    50 ms  xx-xx-xx-xx.phnx.qwest.net [xx.xx.xx.xx]
 3    50 ms    60 ms    70 ms  city-agw1.inet.qwest.net [xx.xx.xx.xx]
 4    70 ms    50 ms    50 ms  tmp-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.129.33]
 5    80 ms    81 ms    70 ms  dia-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.205.86]
 6    80 ms    90 ms    90 ms  kcm-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.8.138]
 7    80 ms    90 ms    80 ms  kcm-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.29.126]
 8   100 ms   100 ms   110 ms  dal-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.8.141]
 9   101 ms   100 ms   100 ms  dal-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.25.50]
10   110 ms    91 ms   100 ms  acr1-so-2-0-0.Dallas.cw.net [208.172.131.201]
11   100 ms   100 ms   101 ms  dcr2-as0-0.Dallas.cw.net [208.172.131.53]
12   130 ms   120 ms   130 ms  dcr1-loopback.Washington.cw.net [206.24.226.99]

13   130 ms   130 ms   140 ms  cpr1-pos-0-0.VirginiaEquinix.cw.net [208.173.52.113]
14   120 ms   130 ms   130 ms  bpr1-so-0-0-0.VirginiaEquinix.cw.net [206.24.227.58]
15   120 ms   130 ms   130 ms  beyond-the-net.VirginiaEquinix.cw.net [208.173.50.246]
16   130 ms     *      131 ms  ge5-1.colo01.ash01.pccwbtn.net [63.216.0.89]
17   150 ms   130 ms   121 ms  63-217-28-218.sdsl.cais.net [63.217.28.218]

Trace complete.