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Chicken Boo

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Generally, my dls are <500mb and do not take more than a couple of hours to complete. Recently though, I've had some large files to dl (1gb each), and I tried to run them to take best advantage of the after-hours special. EVERY time I've tried, the dl would proceed quite well from 11-12pm until 6-7am... and then somewhere between 6-7am, no matter how nicely it had been chugging along, it fails (and this has happened from several source sites).

Having had the exact same thing happen several times, it's starting to look a little like iburst is doing this on purpose. rooigev@@r - would you think I'm having a rather poor run of luck, or is there some sort of reset signal sent once downloads reach a certain point?

To anyone who's downloaded large files - what was the longest duration for a succesful download? Has anyone else experienced what I'm having?
 
Chicken Boo said:
Generally, my dls are <500mb and do not take more than a couple of hours to complete. Recently though, I've had some large files to dl (1gb each), and I tried to run them to take best advantage of the after-hours special. EVERY time I've tried, the dl would proceed quite well from 11-12pm until 6-7am... and then somewhere between 6-7am, no matter how nicely it had been chugging along, it fails (and this has happened from several source sites).

Having had the exact same thing happen several times, it's starting to look a little like iburst is doing this on purpose. rooigev@@r - would you think I'm having a rather poor run of luck, or is there some sort of reset signal sent once downloads reach a certain point?

To anyone who's downloaded large files - what was the longest duration for a succesful download? Has anyone else experienced what I'm having?
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I had something opposite of that.

Whenever I try to download a 1GB+ file between 12am-8am, some downloads timeout/error. And then, EXACTLY at 8am it starts up @ full speed (and due to horrible daytime QoS, dies away within an hour and proceeds at 1KB-4KB).
 
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Chicken Boo said:
Generally, my dls are <500mb and do not take more than a couple of hours to complete. Recently though, I've had some large files to dl (1gb each), and I tried to run them to take best advantage of the after-hours special. EVERY time I've tried, the dl would proceed quite well from 11-12pm until 6-7am... and then somewhere between 6-7am, no matter how nicely it had been chugging along, it fails (and this has happened from several source sites).

Having had the exact same thing happen several times, it's starting to look a little like iburst is doing this on purpose. rooigev@@r - would you think I'm having a rather poor run of luck, or is there some sort of reset signal sent once downloads reach a certain point?

To anyone who's downloaded large files - what was the longest duration for a succesful download? Has anyone else experienced what I'm having?
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I haven't experiment with the large files but there defintely isn't anything we do on purpose. Are you using a download manager?
 
Never had any issue downloading large files at all, was able to download 1.5GB last night and 8GB last weekend with no issues :)

I use Free Download Manager.
 
r00igev@@r said:
I haven't experiment with the large files but there defintely isn't anything we do on purpose. Are you using a download manager?
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Yes. But remember, built-in browser download manager corrupts files and has no ability to fix disconnected downloads. Websites that offer to download files, recommend to use download manager (like FDA, DM, etc) or else it fails. I tried.
 
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These downloads were all through Firefox's download manager, I couldn't get filesonic to work through IDM. I might try FDM.
 
Also check out jdownloader, works perfectly with filesonic.
 
Well, last week I tried using DTA for the downloads, they still failed. This weekend past, I tried Firefox's default download manager again, and again on Sat and Sun the downloads failed at exactly 6:30am (both days it was a single dl that had been coming down at over 60kb/s, over 60% completed).

This makes for a dismal paradox in my mind, because there's no way dls failing like that can be co-incidence, however iburst is the one ultimately losing here, because I'm using gigs of off-peak bandwidth to accomplish nothing - so it makes no sense for them to be disrupting dls. does it?

(jdownloader - I'm sorry but I will not be engaging that POS program ever again. I've tried it twice and it was beyond useless, couldn't get a single successful dl out of it)
 
Chicken Boo said:
Well, last week I tried using DTA for the downloads, they still failed. This weekend past, I tried Firefox's default download manager again, and again on Sat and Sun the downloads failed at exactly 6:30am (both days it was a single dl that had been coming down at over 60kb/s, over 60% completed).

This makes for a dismal paradox in my mind, because there's no way dls failing like that can be co-incidence, however iburst is the one ultimately losing here, because I'm using gigs of off-peak bandwidth to accomplish nothing - so it makes no sense for them to be disrupting dls. does it?

(jdownloader - I'm sorry but I will not be engaging that POS program ever again. I've tried it twice and it was beyond useless, couldn't get a single successful dl out of it)
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We are all asleep in our beds at 6:30am - can you PM me the url and I'll check from the core.
 
I have to add something here - I use FDM and it has OFTEN happened to me that a download that was working fine (and showed resume capability) suddenly changes to resume not possible -and then fails - somewhere between 6:00 and 8:00 AM. Various downloads - various sites - the file itself is fine because when I re-do it at another time (from scratch!) the same files download perfectly.
While I can believe everyone from Iburst is sleeping at that time [sorry r00igev@@r - YOU said it first ;-)] could it not be that the system does some form of reset or re-issue of IP's or something that causes a disruption?
divv
 
divv said:
I have to add something here - I use FDM and it has OFTEN happened to me that a download that was working fine (and showed resume capability) suddenly changes to resume not possible -and then fails - somewhere between 6:00 and 8:00 AM. Various downloads - various sites - the file itself is fine because when I re-do it at another time (from scratch!) the same files download perfectly.
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A lot of these download sites use expiring links, so you can only resume for a certain time period after starting the download.

Being international sites, they often don't take into account how long it takes to download the file at 1Mbps or 384kbps.
 
ginggs said:
A lot of these download sites use expiring links, so you can only resume for a certain time period after starting the download.

Being international sites, they often don't take into account how long it takes to download the file at 1Mbps or 384kbps.
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The problems I have had are with downloads started within the previous hour or 2 at most, plus I only EVER have this problem between 6:00 and 8:00 AM so I don't believe that is the reason in my case. Your suggestion may apply to Chicken Boo's D/L though...
 
ginggs said:
A lot of these download sites use expiring links, so you can only resume for a certain time period after starting the download.
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I've had this problem when downloading with free accounts, and with premium accounts.

This morning I started a dl at 6:20, it went along fine until 6:31 when it just stopped with 36/180mb completed - although firefox considered it a successful download (showed the normal popup for a completed download). I re-started the dl and half an hour later it was done.
 
I started about 5 large downloads from different hosters at the same time over the weekend using FF4 download manager & all of them failed/stalled within an hour or two.

Moved the downloads to Jdownloader - downloaded without problems. Just saying don't trust FF download manager with large files.
 
Daily (approx 06:25) interruption on Iburst

I have noticed that every day at about 06:25 (depending on which PC clock I look at) something seems to happen to the Iburst signal. Any download I have running (and which the moment before was doing just fine) will suddenly go to 0 speed for about 20-30 seconds and then the speed comes back BUT IN THE MEANTIME whatever it is that causes this interruption results in my download manager no longer recognising that the download supports resume - in other words I then get a message saying "do not stop this download you will not be able to resume". If the file finishes on its own before I have to disconnect then all well and good; if I do need to come back to it later its useless and I have to start from scratch.
If I manually stop my downloads before "the interruption" and wait a few minutes then restart them then I don't get this message. But that means I have to be at my computer just before 6:25 every morning and that's a SERIOUS IRRITATION AND INCONVENIENCE.
I don't know if Iburst is changing IP addresses or ????? at this time but it happens: every day as far as I can tell; always within minutes of the time I mention - 6:25; regardless of what file I'm busy with; on more than one computer simultaneously.
What is going on at this time in Bubble's lair and can you not do this at a different time - like just before the end of the midnight to 8:00 window?
You may not care too much about how much bandwidth is consumed in those hours but seriously you are WASTING BANDWIDTH because the end result of this is I have to restart these downloads from scratch so double the bandwidth for the same file - not to mention you have an irritated Iburst user who has to wait another day to get their file!
R00i - please give some answers and other users your experiences?

Thanks
 
divv said:
I have noticed that every day at about 06:25 (depending on which PC clock I look at) something seems to happen to the Iburst signal. Any download I have running (and which the moment before was doing just fine) will suddenly go to 0 speed for about 20-30 seconds and then the speed comes back BUT IN THE MEANTIME whatever it is that causes this interruption results in my download manager no longer recognising that the download supports resume - in other words I then get a message saying "do not stop this download you will not be able to resume". If the file finishes on its own before I have to disconnect then all well and good; if I do need to come back to it later its useless and I have to start from scratch.
If I manually stop my downloads before "the interruption" and wait a few minutes then restart them then I don't get this message. But that means I have to be at my computer just before 6:25 every morning and that's a SERIOUS IRRITATION AND INCONVENIENCE.
I don't know if Iburst is changing IP addresses or ????? at this time but it happens: every day as far as I can tell; always within minutes of the time I mention - 6:25; regardless of what file I'm busy with; on more than one computer simultaneously.
What is going on at this time in Bubble's lair and can you not do this at a different time - like just before the end of the midnight to 8:00 window?
You may not care too much about how much bandwidth is consumed in those hours but seriously you are WASTING BANDWIDTH because the end result of this is I have to restart these downloads from scratch so double the bandwidth for the same file - not to mention you have an irritated Iburst user who has to wait another day to get their file!
R00i - please give some answers and other users your experiences?

Thanks
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Bubbles hasn't even had his morning bananna yet! There is nothing happening around that time on the network (it is even to early for the fibre bloke to trip and fall into a manhole)

What does happen between 2am and 6am is that the peer to peer restrictions are lifted...
 
r00igev@@r said:
Bubbles hasn't even had his morning bananna yet! There is nothing happening around that time on the network (it is even to early for the fibre bloke to trip and fall into a manhole)

What does happen between 2am and 6am is that the peer to peer restrictions are lifted...
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Hi r00i. As I say its like clockwork. Every day same time same thing... and its not peer-to-peer.
 
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