Comments

• wimwauters

  2011-01-15 12:28:56

  wget is more consistent it failed at:
  
  2011-01-15 11:55:03 (54.5 KB/s) - Read error at byte 33483250/45448649 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
  
  2011-01-15 12:05:07 (54.3 KB/s) - Read error at byte 33483250/45448649 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
  
  2011-01-15 12:15:11 (54.7 KB/s) - Read error at byte 33636748/45448649 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
  
  Have fun digging into this :-)
  
  Cheers, Wim
  
  P.S. and +1 for having embedded media with HTML5. The death of Flash is imminent :-)

• wimwauters

  2011-01-15 12:31:13

  I just noticed the wget error messages are exactly 10 minutes and 4 seconds apart. So look for a 600 second limit in your server settings somewhere.

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-01-15 14:00:59

  Thanks. Someone brought it up right after the first few shows and we checked with the host. The main issue we have is the use of Varnish, which overrides some server settings. We'll try sorting this out again using the information you gave.

• wimwauters

  2011-01-15 15:51:20

  Excellent, thanks, I hope they find the 600 second bug :-)

• wimwauters

  2011-01-19 12:47:44

  Yep, the 600 second limit is still there.
  
  I've now managed to download this ogg-cast over a slightly faster connection (8000kbps in stead of 5000-ish kps) in 9 minutes and 47 seconds: yep, that was a close one :-)

• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2011-01-19 13:32:07

  We're setting up a subsite to dodge the issue caused by Varnish timeout settings.

• wimwauters

  2011-01-15 12:02:39

  I've always had niggling problems with downloading the audio files from this domain, but retrying a second or third time would sort it.
  
  The download for episode 24 seem to be an exception to this: Firefox can not complete the download, it fails between 19 and 30MB. Also, your server does not seem to support a download restart, i.e. Firefox keeps having to start from scratch. I suspect a bit of tinkering with enabling restarting, or dealing with partial downloads, might save you a lot of bandwidth :-)
  
  I'm just trying with wget, and it's having exactly the same problem: the first download was interrupted at 33MB for some unknown reason, and then it restarts from scratch :-(
  
  I can download reliably from many other sites with much bigger files, so it ain't me :-)
  
  Cheers, Wim
  
  P.S. I like this show a lot, keep up the good work :-)