[Pan-users] downloads stalling out

[Jeff Berman]

Hi, I really don't think this is a pan issue per se,
but I thought I'd bring it up just in case.

pan sometimes will stall out while downloading
binaries, and will never recover.  The download speed
indicator field at the bottom left gradually drops
closer to zero kb/s and the only way to recover is to
quit and restart pan.  This sometimes occurs
frequently and sometimes seldomly.

I think what is happening is that pan is grabbing
articles so rapidly that it's causing my old Linksys
router to freak out.  Some time ago Cox Communications
apparently updated their network, which caused similar
symptoms (intermittent loss of Internet access) at my
dad's house.  He talked to both Cox and Linksys
technicians, but I'm a little fuzzy on what the
outcome was.  (Some statements were made about the
hardware not being able to keep up with Cox's speed,
but I couldn't get anything more detailed than that.)

I haven't done enough research yet to totally warrant
this email, but I did once remove my router from the
network and then pan downloaded everything without a
hitch.  Is it possible that pan could be doing
something to disrupt communications?

It's been a little difficult to isolate the problem
because I was also frequently getting the dreaded "you
have exceeded the maximum number of news feeds"
message back from my usenet provider.  Perhaps this
has something to do with the now-fixed issue of the
server closing stale connections out from under pan?

At any rate, I'll monitor both issues to isolate the
cause... but has anyone seen similar stall-out
behavior?

Thanks,

Jeff

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