"connection time out" problem

[kenshinonly]

Have anyone notice that some people can download from you while some people can't and you see the message "connection time out"?

I tried downloading and uploading from a friend and we found that I can download from other people but not him, and he can download from other people but not from me. The strange thing is, neither of us has a firewall.

Any clues?

[hawkburn]

Well even though neither of you may have an obvious purchased firewall (Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm, and the such) you still may have one. If either of you have XP then you should turn off the Internet Connection Firewall, right click your connection and do properties then disable the firewall, also if either of you are on a network with a router, the router may have a built in firewall, so consider that and get back with us.


Cheers,


Chris

[SiANiDE]

I've had this problem myself several times over the years, and there are a few things which can cause this problem. The most obvious two culprits tend to be:

1. If you are using your connection for another bandwidth-intensive application (eg downloading via FTP), this will contend your connection, especially on 56k. In fact, I found that on 56k whilst at the initiation stage of the transfer, it's best not even to browse the web!

2. Your time out settings are too low (or indeed, the user's setting at the other end are!). You can change them by going to Settings>File Transfers. The sixth setting down, "Pending downloads timeout after" can be set from 30 to 300s. It defaults to 300s, and I would recommend that it is left at this. If it is any different, change it back to 300.

Hope this sorts out your problem.

[Caitlyn Marble]

Originally posted by SiANiDE
I've had this problem myself several times over the years, and there are a few things which can cause this problem. The most obvious two culprits tend to be:

1. If you are using your connection for another bandwidth-intensive application (eg downloading via FTP), this will contend your connection, especially on 56k. In fact, I found that on 56k whilst at the initiation stage of the transfer, it's best not even to browse the web!



yeah, and while you're not doing anything with the internet, you might as well hold off on that search you want to do until your download actually begins. Searches can drain bandwidth, especially really big searches, like "the Beatles" or "movie" or "nirvana"

[SiANiDE]

ahhhh! arse! just thought of another reason why you may get download time-outs ...

IF A LEECHER IS DRAINING YOUR BANDWIDTH ...

:devil :black