[ale] Speedfactory Downloads

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I'm actually using 2 boxes (one Linux, one Win32), the PPPoE is handled 
by my router (Linksys WRV54G).
Jim Philips wrote:

>I have had no problem downloading iso's and and tv shows on BitTorrent. Since 
>all clients behave the same on your box, I would look at your PPP settings.
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>On Saturday 11 June 2005 06:46 pm, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
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>>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)
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>>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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