Hi Sarah;
Would it help if one person with this problem, who has 7.0 on disk, would 
reload it to their machine and see if this clears the problem.  It could be a 
flaw in the down load, since it is not effecting all machines.  Just an idea.

Terry Powers
Could it also have something to do with whether you downloaded it from the 
internet, disk or had HW put it on your machine.  Is it happening more with 
transplants or with new units?
Just a few things to think about to pin point the bug.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Cranston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Braillenote List
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Incomplete download confirmed by
Bookshare.org


Hi Ann,

To answer one of your questions, there is no disconnect taking place when files 
fail to download.  I usually download while connected to a wireless network.  
After I get the "failed to download" message, I can go check my Email, and that 
downloads just fine.  I can also continue surfing the web without problems.  
However, I cannot download another file until I perform a reset.  What's really 
got all of us confused and frustrated is that this never happened until Keysoft 
7.  I've been downloading files, both from BookShare and other sources, for 
quite some time now, and never experienced anything like this until I did this 
latest upgrade.

While I have you on the line, I'm trying like mad to find another site, besides 
BookShare, that we all can use to test out this problem.  I tried Project 
Gutenberg.  I was able to reproduce the download problem, I downloaded one 
complete file and failed to download the next.  However, neither file would 
unzip when I renamed them with a BKS extension and ran them through the Book 
Reader.  I got two different errors, go figure. <Smile>  I did post the URL to 
the site for downloading Interactive Fiction, but there seems to be some 
hesitation on the part of list members to experiment with this site.  I have 
some questions about that, but that's a discussion for another post.  I have 
also experienced the same downloading difficulties with sites where one can 
download wave files, but that won't help KC and other deaf-blind users, for 
obvious reasons.

Any thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated, and thanks for trying to 
help us figure this out.

Sarah C


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ann K.
Parsons
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 12:02 PM
To: Braillenote List
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Incomplete download confirmed by
Bookshare.org


Hi all,

This is a difficult week to get a hold of vendors because they're all
at CSUN.  I'd try next week.  

If the problem isn't with bookshare, then must be in the BN?  Could
something in the BN be timing out somehow?  I mean, if you're
downloading files, what happens is that the sender sends packets, and
the receiver receives them.  If there is a buffer in the receiver's
machine, when it gets filled, there is a period of time when packets
are stopped from being received.  Could something be triggering a
"hang-up", a disconnect or something?  I mean if you only get a
partial file, that means that the connection on one end or the other
has broken for some reason.  It sure is a puzzler.

Ann P.
 
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