Manual Downloads Failing

[queenbee21283]

Woke up logged in and tried to download A tatto mod and a hair mod.

Started the downlaod and went to get coffe came back to failed downloads. Tried again and got this.

 

The site has run in to a problem, please look at the error message below...

You reached the download limit for this file. The restriction will be lifted in 3 hours."

 

[Dark0ne]

Are you using a download manager? Is it a particularly aggressive download manager that opens lots and lots of download threads?

[Beriallord]

The downloads fail for me too on Explorer, Firefox and Chrome, regardless of using a download manager. I did try the first time downthemall + firefox, it gave a size mismatch error which couldn't be resumed, so I tried regular downloads with no manager, and they failed too.

 

I was trying to download these mods here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/607//?

 

Particularly the HD 1.5 FULL Landscape. 263mb file, usually stops before it downloads 20MBs. One time it got to 150mb before failing. Tried to download it 10x, failed 10x in a row.

[Deleted6900364User]

This happens to me too. i literally cannot download any file manually, because no matter what server i pick it always fails at around 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 90%. its not my internet. i can download from other places just fine.

[Prophesor]

Here are the steps I use when I am having issues downloading manually (which has not been in a few months thankfully. The FS seem pretty decent now)

I happen to use a download manager that I can set up prefrences for certain sites. I set nexusmods.com to only make 1-2 connections at once.

 

1. Click the download manually link.
2. In the window that pops up, pick one of the locations near you. (I usually pick from the middle of the list but it should not matter.)
3. When the file save dialogue comes up it should have a "From" field containing
   

   http://fs##.nexusmods.com. 

   Take a note of the ## part.

4. If your download stops for some reason, repeat the process choosing a different link with a different ##.

Some download managers will recognise the file and restart from where it left off even if it is a new link, this may help, or it may cause the download to stop again later on if the server feels you are being too agressive. Try it with and without this setting.

 

I realized that I was having a particular problem with 3 specific files servers. So whenever I saw those ones, I just hit back and chose another location.

 

 

Hopefully this helps you.

Prophes0r

 

EDIT: is there SERIOUSLY no way to post a fully formed URL without the editor making it into a link? Even unlinking the text does not work.

Edited September 2, 2013 by Prophesor