On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Omer Efraim wrote:
> 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-outor 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.
Can this be related to some kind of transparent proxy that your provider
is using (I know some of them do) ? It seems as if some file transfer
crashes in the middle and then you keep getting it from the cache again.
Try to switch provider.
Access a site which you have access to its logs and see if the source is
from some ISP's proxy.
I would be surprised if this has anything to do with ADSL at all.
> 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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