• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Download Keeps Locking Up When Almost Finished

L

larrytucaz

Senior member
Using a "hotspot" 4G device, I am trying to download a measly 4 megabyte .exe file for installing a program (foobar2000). It is absolutely infuriating me what it is doing, it will plug right on along at a decent rate but then around 3.4 or 3.6 out of 3.7 (as in 97% or so), it will then suddenly refuse to go another step further. It just sits there trying and trying and trying and trying, and failing, when it's RIGHT THERE.

Why, why, why does it do this? Why does it zoom up from 0 to 1 to 2 to 3 very efficiently only to then decide, when it's RIGHT THERE, to all of a sudden develop issues? It's done this over and over, and at different sites as well. It does it with Mozilla and Chrome both equally. It does it at every PC I try.

To me--I'd rather the whole computer blow up and all my hard drive contents get wiped out than something like this happen. It's STUPID for it to be RIGHT THERE and fail. What's the point? Why "tease" someone like that? FINISH THE JOB, OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL!!!

Ugh!!

What gives?
 
Who is your ISP? What class of service are you subscribed to? The problem could be the hotspot device. Are you able to access the Internet another way?
 
Last edited:
Don't laugh, but I'm using a Straight Talk ZTE device. The thing is, it actually works well with most things, and with downloading a file it zooms throughout most of the duration, only to suddenly and out of nowhere with no warning just stop right when it's almost done. Just moments ago I was doing a 6.8 megabyte file and it got to 6.3, within 10-15 seconds, but then refused to budge. Once I walked off and came back an entire HOUR later, it was STILL stuck on the last part, it refused to budge from that spot, but upon restarting it went on through.

If I restart it over it will usually do it, but this is a connection where I'm trying to be easy on the bandwidth, as if I were using a canteen of water in the desert, and I don't like having to redo a file over again, sometimes 2-3 times before it finally "takes," because of this behavior. It can cause me to waste, say, 15 megabytes over a 6 megabyte download (taking me 21 megabytes total to do it on account of the restarts).
 
That's why I prefer to do my downloads with wget. If a download fails I can continue it with wget -c.
 
This is the sort of symptom you'd imagine to be caused by your AV-firewall software. But he says he's replicated the problem on several machines and browsers. Just thought I'd mention it, though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top