I was unable to completely download the .pdb file after the upgrade to version 4. Was using an allowed bandwidth of just 1KB/s to avoid interfering with other apps running at work.

Needed to detach and reattach to the project each time to get another try at downloading the file.

Then I raised the allowed bandwidth to 20KB/s and everything worked just fine. At last I saw...

SETI@home - 2004-08-30 13:14:09 - Finished download of setiathome_4.03_windows_intelx86.pdb

Seems there is a fatal timeout that's killing slow downloads of large files even though they would finish eventually.

There's 2 bugs: the 2nd one is having no way of retrying the download of the .pdb if it fails. (Apart from detaching)

Everything is running smoothly now down here in Melbourne Australia.

As a possible workaround for dial-up connections it might be worth setting your work preferences to min 0 days, max 0 days so that you get at most 1 downloaded workunit and perhaps the .pdb will finish before timing out? (I havent't tried this myself)
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I just found out that by "Disabling the network, letting the download speed go back to zero, and then re-enabling the network, the downloads start right back, at rather high speed as if they were chugging along all the time. I had to do this twice with my PDB file, and all is well and running fine now.

Regards,

Rocky

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