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chaard:
 :-/ I'm having significant problems trying to download some files, especially larger ones. Many downloads just won't won't finish on my Windoze machine. If I use the DownThemAll d/l manager, it reports timeouts. If I use the browser d/l manager, I'll see the d/l stall; I'll pause and try to restart, but it then reports that the source files can't be found. Whenever I pause a d/l, restarting it fails. I don't have these problems on d/l's from other sites, and my network meter shows a steady flow of other data streams, so I can't blame my local ISP. I've rebooted my machine, without improvement. Help!

John C:
If I remember correctly, the software we use acts against download managers.  The early days of GAC saw people using download managers to try to download the entire site, sometimes with bugs that tried to grab the entire site repeatedly.

Yoc:
We haven't heard from anyone else about troubles C.
Please give it another try, without any managers.  Perhaps a different web browser might be tried as well?

chaard:
What happens is that some portion of the file transfers, anywhere from 1% to 95% -- and then it stops, and won't restart. This happens with files from 5mb to 120mb, and the only correlation with size seems to be that slower d/l's are more likely to fail. Sometimes a d/l chugs along at 40kbs, and sooner-or-later fails. Another attempt on the same file might see 300kbs, and it succeeds. This is what leads me to believe it's a server issue.

AFAIK all browsers have built-in d/l managers. I'm not using a site-scooper, just 1-file-at-a-time d/l attempts. AFAIK the only way around those is with an ftp client. OK, I'll try other browsers. But as I said, I don't see this issue with other sites.

chaard:
OK, I've fired-up a couple other browsers and tried more downloads and I can report some results. My usual browser is Mozilla Seamonkey (nice and lean, and less-hacked than Firefox) with DownThemAll (DTA)and FlashGot (FG) handling downloads. (All were updated yesterday.) The others are a recent Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 (MSIE); neither has any add-ons. So, how do these compare?

* Seamonkey/DTA/FG succeeds with short files and some long files, but often fails with timeout errors.
* Chrome and MSIE both succeed with some files, sometimes after failing with the same files, with interruption or network errors.
* With any of these warez, if the d/l is paused, it won't resume, but must restart from scratch.
* Meanwhile, d/l streams from other sites keep flowing with no problems.

It seems like the DCM server software just won't resume from interruptions. I've tried getting Out Our Way 1936 Dailies Jan-Jun (120mb) numerous times with all browsers mentioned. The d/l will fail when anywhere from 2% to 90% complete. I've probably d/l'd a couple gigabytes of that without a success. This is a waste of bandwidth. But what can I do, except keep retrying until it maybe succeds, or giving up in frustration?

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