[Manifold-l] download problems - still

[Colin Driscoll]

Kingsley, 
>From Toronto NSW Australia- I don't have any troubles downloading from
Manifold and having done a lot of beta testing means many many downloads. I
think a couple of times over the last 4 years I have had a corrupted zip
file. I got the recent public beta first time.

Probably no help to you but at least should be said!

Cheers

Colin Driscoll



-----Original Message-----
From: manifold-l-bounces at lists.directionsmag.com
[mailto:manifold-l-bounces at lists.directionsmag.com] On Behalf Of Kingsley at
Synix
Sent: Sunday, 15 October 2006 4:43 PM
To: 'Manifold List Server'
Subject: [Manifold-l] download problems - still

Hi List and Dimitri

Given that you Dimitri doesn't seem to believe there are problems with the
manifold server, i tried yet again and this time got the error message:-

Could not save the file <name> as the source file could not be read.

This is different to the last 5 failures I had - but the source file is not
on my computer
- its on the manifold server. Why could it not be read? A manifold server
problem?????
This attempt was over a month from my last 5 and it can hardly be due to a
corrupt cache.
Once again, you are merely wasting my download quotas as something is badly
broken.
Please send me this on CD - your website is far too unreliable!

As I have said before - I do not have ANY other problem on any other server
I use - not even the microsoft SP2 download of 250Mbyte 2 weeks ago. Worked
first time.

QUESTION: Why does the internet discriminate against only traffic coming
from manifold and not all the other download traffic which works?
ANSWER: It doesn't. It's not the internet doing this - its an unrobust setup
of the manifold server.

Please stop pretending there is no problem. Sure it works sometimes - maybe
if you are all on the same continent. But there are many reasons why FTP
servers fail (too many simultaneously open connections is one that microsoft
themselves acknowledge as a bugfix for VISTA).
Someone needs to check why there are so many complaints and retries. Such
things are very rare on most other download sites, but surprisingly common
on manifold. WHY?

Kingsley Burlinson  Darwin Australia
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