Download Not Working

[Forunc]

I'd love to try this app, but the download keeps stalling out. I've tried the Windows 64-bit and 32-bit versions, and even a Linux version, but they all only go for under 100MB, and then crap out.

[chrisb]

Hi Forunc, welcome to the forum.
First of all it would be interesting if you tried to download from https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/ ?
I was myself in a smilar situation sometime ago, that github wasn't available for me. A very friendly forum member helped out by downloading it and providing it in his dropbox.

To help you please tell us
- Which OS do you use
- Which version do you want
- Where do you live, perhaps someone nearby can check

[Forunc]

Thanks for the reply.

First of all it would be interesting if you tried to download from https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/ ?

Yes, tried again just now. Downoad ground to a halt at about 39 MB.

OS is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

Web forums seem very awkward to me--can't tell who's replying to who--cant' even tell which post I'm replying to!

[Kunda1]

Yes, tried again just now. Downoad ground to a halt at about 39 MB.

OS is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

Web forums seem very awkward to me--can't tell who's replying to who--cant' even tell which post I'm replying to!

What country are you in? Maybe it's your IP? I checked GitHub status and everything seems stable on their end. Perhaps you should use TOR to download the file?

Re:forums
It's not the best but it's the way this community connects and discusses issues. Hopefully some upcoming updates in the forum software will make it more friendly.

[Forunc]

What country are you in?

USA

[Kunda1]

What country are you in?

USA

Did you try Tor ?

[Forunc]

No. I've never used it and don't know anything about it, other than it's somesort of below-board way of transfering files.

[Kunda1]

https://www.torproject.org/about/history/

[Forunc]

Did you try Tor ?

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to try to sort out why the dl is not working? Especially since it seems I'm not alone with this problem.

At this rate, it's looking like I could pour a lifetime into this app and never get anything done. With just the time I've spent so far, I could have driven the 60 miles to my old work site and used Unigraphics to do my little project.

[Kunda1]

It's not like the files iles are hosted on our server, it's on GitHub. And they have CDNs, probably Amazon AWS. Perhaps they are throttling your IP subnet ? Not sure man. If you're getting impatient, which it sounds like you are... I could upload the file to Dropbox for you. Or you could try to download it another way, like I suggested.

Remember we're all volunteers and enthusiasts here.