Peter & Alexander, On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, at 01:45:00 [GMT +0500] (which was 2:15 AM where I live) you wrote:
Thanks for the inputs will do research and get back to you. AL> Well, does you net have Firewall with or without NAT, and do you have AL> admin in your net :-)? What about ping after "mail hangs", how work AL> FTP-downloads for files outside LAN? I use Zone Alarm for the fire wall. Have disabled ZA and checked with no luck. I can also ping to the ISP's server through out. FTP & HTTP downloads work just fine. I have been down loading MP3 songs whole day. (while researching) this problem. AL> Does POP (or IMAP) works well for servers inside net?! I cannot really confirm this but the ISP provides for his own e-mail box (pop) and the problem exists when I try to down load from this server also. PP> it seems to be a general network congestion problem with your system PP> connected to the Internet via your broadband connection. I would have agreed if the problem were with downloads in general. But what I have narrowed is that the problem surfaces under the following condidtions 1 E-Mail larger than 15 k (Approx) 2. When I use the broad band connection only. All mails to this account (used for groups like TBUDL/TBTECH) have been downloading well. PP> Some days ago somebody wrote something similar but he was using a 56k PP> modem. IIRC he also used W2K Pro. So it seems there's some option in PP> W2K that causes this behavior. I too recall this and did a quick search but did not find the messages. Will checkout again. PP> What exactly does happen if you try to download a mail larger than PP> 15k? does the download star and stops suddenly? Does it never really PP> start? The connection starts. In fact if there a small mail ahead of a larger mail, then the small sized mail gets downloaded, then depending on the mail 10-30% of the larger sized mail also gets downloaded. When I used outlook it gave me a time out error as follows "A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account: 'mail.kaladyinc.com', Server: 'mail.kaladyinc.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC19" PP> As you're connected through broadband I guess the connetion PP> between you and the cable modem is done via Ethernet cable? If so, PP> does the light at your NIC stays flashing when download stops? does it PP> suddenly interrupt and nothing seems to happen? Yes I am connected via ethernet. I did not check on the light of the NIC will do so now. Unfortunately as I switched on the machine in the morning the connection seems to be down and now using dial up. PP> What if you try to surf while downloading? Does this work or is there some general PP> network congestion/blocking? As is evident from http://www.mailmejobs.com/conc.jpg I have waited for as much as 7 hours...during this time I have continued surfing and downloading w/o any problems. Also I was able to investigate further by visiting my neighbour who also uses the same ISP (broadband) and was successfully able to download messages irrespective of size. The ISP also provides for dial up access and when I use this method the download is successful. There also does not seem to be a problem sending large sized mails. Cause I have been testing by sending out mails to various servers and then trying to down load. I use ADR as my local SMTP. PP> At least you can try to get used with a packet sniffer like [1] , PP> direct download URL [2]. You'll also need [3] or [4]. Will work on this in the mean time. Thanks for the efforts. ps: Another unrelated problem but could provide clues is that when I click on any URL (in an e-mail message or on a web page) the browser return 'Page unavilable' - However when I refresh page is shown properly. -- Warm regards, Raj mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Replied on Monday, December 10, 2001 using TB Ver 1.53d on Windows NT -- ______________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbtech.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
