[hackerspaces] problems with uploading, downloading is fine - strange

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

Hi to all,

I have a weird problem. I have tried to upload files from my computer to my Word Press, Facebook and Yahoo account and it doesn't work = nothing gets uploaded from photos to text files of just few kilobytes in size. Another person tried to do the same for his Facebook account from the same computer and the same happened, not functioning. Downloading and surfing the net works fine. I've never had such a problem, it is weird, anyone have some idea?

I'm using my wwoof host computer which is Gateway netbook with Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of memory and Windows 7 operation system, the web browser is Google Chrom and I use wireless connection and the speed is in general very good. 

I'm not Windows user for more than five years, I always use Linux on my machines so I'm now bit in trouble and I've around 36 hours to sort this out before I leave the current location.

I was downloading some movies recently by torrent so I wonder if the Internet provider could cause some problems because later on the downloads slowed down considerably and the uploads were becoming more and more difficult on any type of media from attachments to emails to photos. However other machines in the house are working just fine, downloading included (the host family has a central "server" however I do not have any additional info about that). I'm based in Japan now.

I need to upload photos to my blog posts because my news letter is coming out soon. When I've tried to find out what could be the cause of this problem on line I did not succeeded, I guess it is something silly/small.

Thanks for any help,

Sincerely, 

Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck

biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker

http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org

"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Ghandi

[Volatile Compound]

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

- skroo.

On 3/29/12 8:40 PM, Frantisek Apfelbeck wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I have a weird problem. I have tried to upload files from my computer to
> my Word Press, Facebook and Yahoo account and it doesn't work = nothing

> gets uploaded from photos to text files of just few kilobytesin size.

> Another person tried to do the same for his Facebook account from the
> same computer and the same happened, not functioning. Downloading and
> surfing the net works fine. I've never had such a problem, it is weird,
> anyone have some idea?
>
> I'm using my wwoof host computer which is Gateway netbook with Intel
> Atom processor, 1 GB of memory and Windows 7 operation system, the web
> browser is Google Chrom and I use wireless connection and the speed is
> in general very good.
>
> I'm not Windows user for more than five years, I always use Linux on my
> machines so I'm now bit in trouble and I've around 36 hours to sort this
> out before I leave the current location.
>

> I was downloadingsome movies recently by torrent so I wonder if the

> Internet provider could cause some problems because later on the
> downloads slowed down considerably and the uploads were becoming more
> and more difficult on any type of media from attachments to emails to
> photos. However other machines in the house are working just fine,
> downloading included (the host family has a central "server" however I
> do not have any additional info about that). I'm based in Japan now.
>
> I need to upload photos to my blog posts because my news letter is
> coming out soon. When I've tried to find out what could be the cause of
> this problem on line I did not succeeded, I guess it is something
> silly/small.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck
>
> biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker
>
>
> http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org
>
>
> "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Ghandi
>
>

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[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

Yes I've tried that many times, this problem is kind of worsening in the last two weeks. I was hoping that if I stop downloading it will gradually improve but it is not the case at least not after more than week from last download. 

Small note I've not tried to connect to another network uploading some files there because I did not have this option.

Thanks,

Sincerely,

 

Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck

biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker

http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org

"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Ghandi

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Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] problems with uploading, downloading is fine - strange

[psy...@alphaonelabs.com]

Try using a web proxy, tor, or direct sftp.

psytek

alphaonelabs.com

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

It is sorted. I've tried the web proxy and it did not work. However I've realized that this computer does not have any antivirus program so I've installed free trial AVG version, run all the tests, got rid of whatever male ware I've found (quite a decent selection), tried uploading and viola it works!

It looks like that the system was just clogged, at least I hope that it was the reason. I've not have an antivirus program for five years now on my Linux machines so I just forget, silly but true.

Many thanks for help, the web proxy is a trick which I'll certainly use in the future, I do not have generally option of using Tor because I'm using others peoples computers and I do not want to do too much of installing otherwise I liked that program, it came handy in Chiapas :-))

Sincerely from Omura, Kyushu,

Frantisek Algoldor Apfelbeck

biotechnologist&kvasir and hacker

http://www.frantisekapfelbeck.org

"There is no way to peace, peace is the way." Ghandi

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