Erik

I'll take a look at this. I'm thinking maybe they got put somewhere they shouldn't.

Each file has a report button or link associated to it. When you use that feature to specifically tell us which file is bad we can check it. To make a blanket statement and say that 2/3 of your downloads were broken gives us nowhere to start looking. So in hindsight maybe we should have asked you to report the files you had problems with as we couldn't do anything with your report as it was when you first posted here. So as of this response nothing has been done, there is no resolve, and we're no closer to solving anything other than agree you reported something and we tried to help with some common issues others have had. Thanks for the help and sorry for the confusion. If you run into this again use the feature to report the file so we can look into that specific file closer.

Dad that's the last brussel sprout I'm eating, are we clear?

Al mal tiempo, buena cara. There are two sides to a window but only one glass. We all see the same glass. Words are never to blame it is how they are used. In both cases here words are said by friends and mean nothing more. There is no hard feelings or stain on the community. No-one on either side meant anything bad by what was said. Foro aqui esta perron. Yo respecto mucho todos amigos Argies y Gringos ... todos! Laughter is always best. Time is too short for such small problems. ------------------------------------------------------ Real or Virtual? ¡Papá! ¡Papá! En el colegio, en la clase me pidieron, que para mañana explique la diferencia entre "virtualmente" y "realmente". - Bueno... Pregúntale a tu madre si se acostaría con otro hombre por un millón de dólares. -El niño obedece: -Mamá... ¿te acostarías con otro hombre por un millón de dólares? -¡Por supuesto! -¡Papá! ¡Papá! ¡Dijo que sí! - Bueno... ahora anda y pregúntale a tu hermana... -María... ¿te acostarías con un hombre por un millón de dólares? -¡Claro que sí! ¡Papá! ¡Papá! ¡También dijo que sí! - Vale y pregúntale también a tu hermano mayor... - Paco, te acostarías con un hombre por un millón de dólares? - Pues claro tío! - Papá Papá él también a dicho que sí! ¿Ves?... "VIRTUALMENTE" tenemos tres millones de dólares, pero "REALMENTE" sólo tenemos un par de putas y un maricón en casa.

I have to agree with the two posts above. I would suggest trying a different decompression tool like 7zip or WinRar. The site automatically assigns a file size of 0KB to a file that is corrupt on upload. Otherwise if the file size shows as having a size it's a valid file checked and scanned upon upload to both our main server and mirror server. As to your question, you wouldn't obviously, and I wouldn't blame you. Thankfully we aren't faced with that problem. Erik

A otro perro con ese hueso ... gringo, wedo, wahito, blanca, clara, negra .... they are just words. It's not so much that they are used but the context in which they are used. This is content versus context and I personally wouldn't give this a second look. I think it's more important to remember that we are all part of the same community and our first goal is to remember we're here together as friends. Todos amigos aqui, ta bien? I trust Dave he's not here stirring up trouble just making sure everything is fine. Saludos. E

In Win7 the WerSvc (Windows Error Reporting Service) is not started by default automatically. You might research how to start and use this feature as it might give you some insight to the problem. CTDs are difficult to diagnose because generally there are no error logs written and that's why I mention the WerSvc. However without some technical assistance or background the error reports are not easily deciphered as they reference an illegal call or resource in hex format and if it's something as fundamental as hardware related it's even more difficult. I'm not an OFF expert so my insights are limited but I'd consider: 1) Does your machine run CFS3 or MSFS without any issues? 2) Does your machine have the latest install of DX9 (I believe Win7 uses DX10 but CFS and MSFS use DX9 so an additional install is required)? 3) Does DX9 report any errors (using the diagnostic tool)? Wish I could be more help but as a consolation you're in the right place the guys here are top notch at figuring this stuff out. E

D.A. - I was being a bit sarcastic with a toothy edge of truth thrown in. When there are aircraft registered to Kris Kringle - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, tractor trailers registered to Jack Frost - 935 Pennsylvania Ave, and black Lincoln sedans registered to Crypto le Man - McLean VA you just never know. I do agree the cumulative general appearance is and can be rather vanilla.

Those guys are way too smart for something that obvious. They'd opt for something definitely more secret squirrel like G Men Inc, The Man Inc, or Flowers By Isaac. I'm just saying silly stuff happens. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/

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I was having some birthday cake and saw this on the news, but that's not important now. Very sad. Rumack: What was it we had for dinner tonight? Elaine Dickinson: Well, we had a choice of steak or fish. Rumack: Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna. My condolences to his family and friends and thanks for the laughs Leslie. E

I've heard stories about our neighbors to the north getting the shaft when it comes to unregulated rates charged to consumers. A little known fact is that Canada has one of the highest per household densities of Internet users in the World and obviously rates to match. That's a fairly dramatic fact considering it's the second largest land mass behind Russia but with only 1/2 the population. Another scary fact is that high speed Internet in Canada is considered anything above 64K. I can't imagine trying to surf the web on a 64K connection.

Yes. The fact that our mirror is faster really puts the wrench to me. I'd like to have your traces and speeds to use as ammunition. Thank you.

Ticket is open and I'll need that information from you guys to proceed. Please post it up when you have it so we can get this resolved. Thanks.

Nobody is stuck with anything there are always options. The hard part is I have to have valid credible evidence to wield not just reports of problems. I'm not saying that the reports aren't credible I'm believing every word what I am saying is that when I make the complaint to our upstream provider the first thing they are going to ask for is the proof not the claim. That said I've already filed off the first complaint and we'll see where this takes us. What you can do in the meantime is help me get ready for their response. Here's how. For my upstream: 1. I need new traceroutes to combatace.com 2. I need new ping reports to combatace.com 3. You can also traceroute to files.combatace.com (they hate this because our files machine is on their competitors line). 4. Ping reports to files.combatace.com 5 Screenshots of the download windows of throughput while the file is downloading showing the 15kb/s. 6 Traceroute and ping a site you get good speeds from. For me: 7. Compare the download speeds between the two servers (The standard download button and the mirror download button) and report them along with the above. I'm sure you guys are up to the task so once I get those I'll do the return traces back to you and fill out the appropriate paperwork and continue the complaint. If they don't or can't explain the issue I always have the option of looking for another provider. If you are having problems with download speeds and are reporting them please read the entire thread, and provide the above. The more documented cases the easier it is to make things happen. Let me know. Erik

Disconnects usually happen because one end of the connection goes away. There are a few causes for this but mostly it's due to packet loss. Packet loss is a very loose term compared to the actual negotiation of traffic but what happens is this. Consider a packet of data like a box with stuff in it. This is what a good connection would look like. We send a packet --> You receive a packet and answer back you got it. We get the got it answer and send another --> You receive it and send back the got it. We get the got it answer and send another --> You receive it and send back the got it. This goes on until the file transfer is complete. The faster we get the "got it" answers the faster we send and the faster you receive. This is what most people consider bandwidth or connection speed. In actuality there is much more happening but for a basic overview this gets the job done. Now let's consider a bad connection or slow connection. We send a packet --> You receive it and answer back you got it. [somewhere in the connection, like a busy router, loses that data packet or delays sending it so we receive it late] This is considered packet loss or network congestion. We send another packet --> You receive it and answer back you got it. We get the got it answer and send another --> You receive it and answer back you got it. We receive the first got it answer and the third got it answer and send another with a longer wait time between it --> You receive it and answer back you got it. The traffic has now negotiated to a slower speed. This goes on until the file transfer is complete or the connection degrades to the point where we or you stop getting and receiving information. If you want to run a traceroute to combatace.com and post it here I may be able to help further. You can also run a ping test in conjunction with the traceroute for more helpful information. To do that it's the same command window but type. C:\ping combatace.com -n 20 Post those results here and we'll go from there. Thanks. Erik

The only two hops that responded are your router and our machine. Something is fishy. Either you have a firewall in play that is filtering that traffic or your ISP does. If the connection can't be negotiated properly and we're just blindly throwing packets back and forth between our machines it is no wonder you only get 21 kb/s. Start turning off firewalls, internet (anti-virus) suites, and disconnect from your router by going straight to the modem for testing to see if you can eliminate software and hardware as being the cause. Next would be a nice conversation with your ISP tech support to see what the heck is going on. Looking at our traffic today I'm not seeing any issues with our throughput. Let me know what you find out.

That is horrible and I apologize you're having problems. A connection to download files, videos, photos, etc is all the same in that it depends on a consistent ability to send and receive data across a routed path between two ends (you and us). As the connection becomes more and more complex that connection tends to degrade and if you have a bad or heavily trafficked router or carrier anywhere between your computer and ours that is when the connection becomes really bad. I'm suspect that you're somewhere in that mix. When I trace back to your machine from our server I get out 8 hops to London.opentransit.net and then the routing gets masked. The last machine to respond is out at hop 11 and it's difficult for me to see if that's even in your netblock or ISP. Up and to the last response the hops are out 200 milliseconds which isn't too bad considering that small thing between us, the Atlantic Ocean. Past hop 12 it's anyone's guess what's happening but I suspect that's where the problem is that's causing you such slow access. 9 * * so-6-0-0-0.loncr4.London.opentransit.net (193.251.131.185) 165.093 ms 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 87.237.20.241 (87.237.20.241) 199.839 ms 197.348 ms 193.335 ms You are welcome to run the following on your machine from a command line. C:\tracert combatace.com That will give you a look directly at your routing and latency from your machine to us. If you'll paste that trace into this discussion I can look at it and maybe give you a better idea of what's going on and where to start with a resolve. Erik

This is what happens when I get tired. I was fixing a display issue where the "Home" link in the site navigation never highlighted when you were on the home page and it made the navigation appear to work funny. Anyway I forgot to close a list and instead used an operator. I found the error and made the fix then tested in Opera, Chrome, IE8, and FireFox. All appears to be working normally for me. Can you test this on your end and confirm that? Thanks

This sounds like the zoom size has been changed. The zoom increases or decreases the text size / page size depending on browsers. The zoom can usually be found in the browser's "View" menu. Most browsers use the [ CTRL ] + [ + ] or the [ CTRL ] + [ - ] to zoom in or out. Additionally some browsers have a reset like [ CTRL ] + [ 0 ]. Let me know what browser you are using and see if you can find a zoom level setting to reset or change to adjust the text size. As a side note this may also be a resolution setting in your graphics card. Keep me posted. Erik