Anyone having downloading problems lately? Every week like clockwork I download shows sunday night to watch and yesterday I was unable to. I use Grabit software to download via newsgroups. (Giganews) I’ve tried to trouble shoot this with Giganews, but they are saying that they can see me opening connections on thier end. The problem is that no data is transfering.
I can see Grabit sending the password and username and eventually it stops at “unexpected error while downloading body”.
This is extremely anoying. I’ve rebooted my computer, my router, my DSL modem. Hell… I even uninstalled the new update to AVG that came just before the problems just in case that was the problem. I’ve run out of ideas. I can ping news.giganews.com and a tracert seems to run fine. Is it possible that CityWest is blocking it?
I’m definitely going to ask them. I’m just looking for options to try so that I can be properly armed for the usual “it must be on your end” response. The frustrating thing is that I’m having no other problems. I can surf the web. I can even download stuff via the browser. I’ve downloaded three different nzb programs and none of them will download a file.
Well after spending the evening trying different things I finally gave up. I checked for a response from CityWest and got nothing. Imagine my surprise when I get home after work and my downloads are working again. Could it be a coincidence? Sure. This isn’t the first time though that I’ve complained to CityWest and had a problem mirraculously solve itself.