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Downloads Failing - File is invalid

Postby ~s0ap~ » Thu Jul 26, 12 8:35 pm

I try to download files they cut off at a random time, and the file becomes invalid. This has never happened on my old computer. Happens on all websites. Does not happen on smaller files, torrents, steam, or anything else. It only happens on browsers. It still happens if I change the location to save it. Here are my specs(Copy and pasted from Speccy)


Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1

CPU
Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz
Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology

RAM
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24)

Motherboard
Intel Corporation DH67BL (LGA1155)

Graphics
X223W (1680x1050@60Hz)
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series (XFX Pine Group)

Hard Drives
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EARX-00N0YB0 (SATA)

Optical Drives
DTSOFT Virtual CdRom Device
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS90

Audio
M-Audio Delta 1010LT
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Postby Dae » Thu Jul 26, 12 9:23 pm

What browser do you use for downloading? Have you tried other browsers?

Does it happen with any files other than archives?
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Postby Professor Layton » Thu Jul 26, 12 9:24 pm

It might just be that you're losing your internet connection for a split second or so, that tends to have that effect on downloads in browsers.
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Postby ~DJ~ » Thu Jul 26, 12 9:37 pm

Get IDM, download from that?
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Postby ~s0ap~ » Thu Jul 26, 12 11:07 pm

Google Chrome, it happened on all other browsers I've tried, Firefox and IE. It happens with all kinds of files. Layton, how can I test that? DJ, I'm too cheap to buy it lol.
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Postby Dae » Thu Jul 26, 12 11:21 pm

In command prompt, type

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ping -n 100 google.com


and see if there's any packet loss when it's done.
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Postby ~s0ap~ » Thu Jul 26, 12 11:27 pm

I've got 0 packet loss.
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Postby ~DJ~ » Fri Jul 27, 12 2:53 am

~s0ap~ wrote:DJ, I'm too cheap to buy it lol.

..who.. buys that stuff? you know what do to.. :oops:
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Postby Dae » Fri Jul 27, 12 4:53 pm

I think it's a good idea to find out what actually causes the problem instead of avoiding it by using a download manager.

Wild guess, check your MTU. In command line prompt,
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netsh interface ipv4 show subinterfaces
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Postby ~s0ap~ » Wed Aug 01, 12 8:07 pm

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