Download problems

johnbrooks · Post by **johnbrooks** » Sun May 30, 2004 2:14 pm

Can't seem to download anything at the moment. (yes I'm a premium member and yes I'm logged in!).

Are there problems generally?

John

I'm getting "cannot find server" after about 5 mins wait.

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Sun May 30, 2004 2:30 pm

Just came here to report the same!

Sent Matt a message.

djneiljbham · Post by **djneiljbham** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:10 pm

Same Here been since about 230

lemberg · Post by **lemberg** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:17 pm

Yes got same problems perhaps it's a parasite.
Lemberg

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:22 pm

I think it's the same for everyone since you ca nsee that the download queue is empty and that there isn't anybody downloading at all!

gavinwebb19 · Post by **gavinwebb19** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:23 pm

Happened to me too. any reason why we cant download?

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:25 pm

Tried a test download at 11:19 EDT - still getting 'Sending request to dltest.uktrainsim.com' over 4 minutes later. This suggests that the server is 'unavailable' for some reason. Maybe Matt's working some black magic instead of his usual kind....

117305 · Post by **117305** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:39 pm

just had the same problem 2 im not worried as well the downloads will still be there later i expect it will be ok soon

Post by **NeutronIC** » Mon May 31, 2004 8:50 am

Sorry about that folks, it's fixed now - but please email me, I didn't even read this forum until this morning

Thanks to Alan for dropping me a note on MSN or else I wouldn't have found it was down until now

Matt.

thenudehamster · Post by **thenudehamster** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:56 pm

'didn't read the forums'??? - Stands back in amazement

I deliberately didn't email as I thought you'd read the forums when you got the chance... Ah well.
As I said elsewhere, nothing is that life-or-death with MSTS that it can't wait a little while.

Post by **NeutronIC** » Mon May 31, 2004 4:53 pm

No I read the forums only when I get a chance - so if it's midnight and i am on the way to bed I will check email and then go to bed, if it's morning before work i check email then go, if son is up then i'll quickly scan email and then go back and so forth

forums are usually only when sat down and nothing more pressing is tugging at me (which doesn't happen that much these days!) - email however is given priority so that's easily the best way to get in touch and I have no problem with lots of people emailing me as it makes it clear to me it's a widespread problem and not a single instance perhaps where an ISP has had a minor glitch (happened a few times in the past, looked like the server was down to the person in question).

I think i've found the cause of the download server going to sleep, it seems to lose connection to the database and then spirals out of control unable to re-establish any more connections. I guess it's possibly not actually closing them or leaking them some how... i've got a new version of the database driver and if I can ever convince Visual Studio to re-install I will update to that and put some more trapping in the code to try and help diagnose it.

Matt.

Dangregors04 · Post by **Dangregors04** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:21 pm

Im kind of new to this btried downloading the 421 cig train about a month ago and it said I was in a queue and im still waiting for this download could anyone just tell me how to download these trains if im doing it wrong?

Stooopidperson · Post by **Stooopidperson** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:49 pm

Dangregors04 wrote:Im kind of new to this btried downloading the 421 cig train about a month ago and it said I was in a queue and im still waiting for this download could anyone just tell me how to download these trains if im doing it wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong! You would have to queue up in order to download!

asalmon · Post by **asalmon** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:46 pm

When in the queue you have to preiodically press the update button (or whatever its called) - if you leave it too long you lose your place.

Or, become a premium member and you don't have to queue.

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