Hi,
I recently had ADSL installed at my place, and
very quickly ran into a very annoying problem. I'm
hoping someone else might have come across it and
would have a solution - or otherwise, it would be best
to approach Bezeq with more than one case of this
phenomenon (as they keep trying to blow me off with
lame excuses). This is long, but please bear with me.
When I download files from ftp, the download frequently
stops in the middle for no apparent reason. I'm not
talking about a time-out or a disconnect - it just stops
receiving data and freezes. If I disconnect and try
to resume the download, it just sits there doing nothing
forever. Nothing helps, even after a restart/disconnect/whatever,
the same file still freezes. If I try to delete the file
and restart the download from zero, it will start transferring,
then will freeze in exactly the same spot. Note that
during the time when the download freezes, other downloads
continue just fine without any problem at all. And the
weirdest thing is that I can _never_ resume that specific download.
It can download 20 files just fine from a certain ftp server,
then suddenly freeze in the middle of the next one, while
happily downloading away from other places in the same
time. A minute later, one of the transfers from the other ftp
serves can stop - it happened while transfering from FTPDs
of all types.
The ADSL modem is connected to my linux box which acts as a
router (masquaraded), but even trying to install the modem
on a Windows98/Win2k box did not help. This is not a client
problem either, as I have tried many many clients (ncftp/gftp/vanilla
ftp on Linux, and many more on Win32 boxes).
I would appreciate any replies from people who have come across
the same problem. I suspect this is a defective modem problem
myself, as Bezeq claim the line is fine (although it seems to peek
at roughly 200kb/s, even though I'm about 1-1.5km from the
local telco office). Any clues would also be immensely helpful,
perhaps from network engineers.
Phew.
Thanks.
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