[ale] large file downloads & Comcast

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:05 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
> That's Comcast!  I have the same problem.  It is not your equipment.
> It's why I'm switching.

Check the temp of the cable modem. I have a friend with similar issue.
Things work OK for short bursts but the box get HOT with long accesses.
He had a 'fridge close by so we plopped it in and it ran DVD downloads
all night with no more errors.
> 
> Bob Toxen
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> 
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 06:33:28PM -0400, Tim Meanor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a bunch of different PCs hiding behind a LinkSys wireless  
> > router.  Comcast is my ISP.  I've been trying to download the Ubuntu  
> > 6.06 PPC ISO.  I have an old Titanium Mac Powerbook on which I'd like  
> > to try running Ubuntu.  Problem is, the download gets to 649 MB (out  
> > of about 698MB) and it dies.  By "dies" I mean it hangs, no more data  
> > comes down, etc.  This happens on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.  I've  
> > tried downloading via Firefox, IE, Safari, and Curl, but always the  
> > same result.  I suspect that Comcast is killing the download once it  
> > hits 649MB, but I'm not totally sure this is the problem.  I've had  
> > this problem downloading large files before (e.g. trying to download  
> > XCode resulted in the same problem).  Has anyone had this problem  
> > before?  Anyone have any insights?  Thanks for any ideas.
> > 
> > -Tim
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