[ale] Speedfactory Downloads

[Nathan J. Underwood]

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).