Trouble Downloading?
A very small percentage of people report having trouble downloading this… like maybe 4 people. If you are having trouble, it seems to be on your end… your browser, connection, or firewall… not sure. But those people have been successful in downloading the show with BitComet.
Please post your O/S, Internet Connection, and Browser if you are having troubles.
BitComet seems to be the best method if you are having troubles.
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January 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I can never download The Webcomic Beacon using just my browsers. I have been successful using the download manager FlashGet.
I am sorry, but this is the only place I am having this problem. So it might just not be our connections.
January 7th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Yea, I’m one of those people with the problem. This isn’t the only podcast it happens to either, so it isn’t you guys. So far it has only happened with ep. 4.
I just listen to whatever got cut out on the direct feed…
Keep up the good work on the podcast!
January 8th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Yea mine died at 18 minutes in right as your saying don’t be an as**** and then nothing
January 8th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Mine died the 1st time right as Tanya started wrapping the show up, then the 2nd time right at the start of the interview. So I just streamed it to the end, and I watched it even lock up as it was streaming. Really weird stuff man…
January 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Hrm… I tried to download the last episode on ITunes and there’s only 34 minutes there. Something funky is going on.
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January 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Tanya if you tried to download it again it’ll probably chop at a different spot. It’s wierd too cuz it always says the filesize is the same, but its like the download prematurely breaks off. Ya know?
January 9th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I’m going to work on this issue… it seems to be sporatic now… inconsistent…. I’ll look into this closer again.
January 10th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Same problem here. iTunes feed is completely broken. It tries to download and then it just quits without anything coming through.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
UPDATE: I’m going to try direct URL files. You can find the MP3s at the following link. If anyone can see if these work, then I’ll supply this as well in future updates. I’m suspecting Wordpress/Podpress hates me, or I may have too much running on my Xepher account. My host and I can’t really find a logical explanation for why it inconsistently fails.
http://WebcomicBeacon.com/AUDIO/
January 11th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Well, I’m on a library computer right now, so I tried your BitComet thing…damn, did that ever mess things up even worse! Now it won’t download AT ALL! I keep getting weird error messages…
January 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
The direct file approach didn’t work either, unfortunately. Got about five minutes in, then stopped. I don’t think I’m ever going to hear a complete one of these podcasts!
January 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I did a right-click/”save target as” from your ftp link and that pulled down the whole of last week’s episode as a file. Direct-clicking the file in the ftp listing had trouble connecting. I may upload last week’s to my server and play with it.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Okay, the “click and drag link into the BitComet icon” method seems to work. I actually got to listen to the whole thing for once! w00t!
January 11th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I’m going to try disabling statistics… see if Podpress is &*%#!@ with me.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
I think I know the problem. The Webcomic Beacon is on a subdirectory, with a domain name masked… So I took that out of the file, and used the base URL instead…. so far, it seems noone has been having problems.
January 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am
It happened again with ep 7. Talked to other people and they said they couldn’t get past 4 minutes in. I stopped at 23 minutes and 27 minutes before I finally just streamed it.
Sorry dude.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:12 am
Ok, there is one more thing I can try before I can say I have really no idea why it is happening.
Please post your O/S, Internet Connection, and Browser if you are having troubles.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
O/S-windows xp
Int Con.-DSL
Brows-firefox
First time having trouble with it, I just did the same thing CN did. Worked fine!
January 30th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Correction. It only downloaded a 15min 36sec file… *sigh* So close.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:54 am
My Host says:
“Again, I’m pretty stumped… The only server limits that would be in place would be script execution time (can’t exceed 900 seconds) for cgi/php based downloads. Direct links shouldn’t be affected, and from the letter, it sounds like they’re downloading it quite fast so it’s not a time-limit thing. The fact that it works fine for most people to download the full file really does imply it’s not a server-side issue. My best guess is still some proxy (like the transparent ones large ISPs sometimes use) not playing nice. […]… see if you have an IP address for the user with the problems, so we can figure out what ISP they’re on and such.
FYI, I’m in the middle of a move right now, so I may be offline most of the day for the next couple days. Have them try downloading another large file from the server here… Try the anime video I made years and years ago. It’s 43 megs. http://xepher.xepher.net/downloads/Mononoke%20Hime%20-%20Alanis%20Morissette%20-%20Head%20Over%20Feet.avi
If they can grab that, but not the mp3 of your podcast, then it’s gotta be something with the specific file/filetype. Ask them to tell you how long it took to download too, so we have some idea if the overall time limits by be hitting.”