I am trying to download tasks and the download is going about 1-3 KB/s. So I reset the project in the boinc manager, and the first couple file downloads were going about 100 KB/s but now the rest are at 1-3 KB/s again. Anything up with the server or just me?

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I'm seeing ~280Kbps upload and a short-Long WU downloaded in a few seconds.

The problem likely exists with an Internet router somewhere between you and the GPUGrid servers or bandwidth capping. If it's the former there is two simple things to try form a command prompt,

ipconfig -release
ipconfig -flushdns
ipconfig -renew

If that fails turn your router off for a few minutes and then on again, and if that fails do the same every few hours (just whenever you feel like it) in case your ISP is messing with their DNS servers.

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I noticed slow downloads also, along with slow access to the GPUGRD.net web site. I wonder if the geographic location has something to do with it?


Everything else is normal.

Yep, I'm noticing slow GPUGrid downloads, as well as slow GPUGrid forum access. Just be patient, it'll clear. Resetting the project is very drastic. For issues like this, I usually wait it out about 3 days, before requiring action (either from the project, or from me trying to reset stuff locally).

TLDR; Be patient.

All my machines are also having download problems for GPUGrid. In fact downloads often stall for long periods. No other projects are affected. Website access is slow too. This has been going on for about a week and is getting worse and worse.

Edit, a typical example of the kind of thing I keep getting:

9046 GPUGRID 03-31-14 09:50 Started download of A2ARNULx2x04x31-GERARD_A2ARx2-3-pdb_file
9047 GPUGRID 03-31-14 09:51 Temporarily failed download of A2ARNULx2x04x31-GERARD_A2ARx2-3-psf_file: transient HTTP error
9048 GPUGRID 03-31-14 09:51 Backing off 00:02:34 on download of A2ARNULx2x04x31-GERARD_A2ARx2-3-psf_file
9049 03-31-14 09:51 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
9050 03-31-14 09:51 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
9051 GPUGRID 03-31-14 09:54 Started download of A2ARNULx2x04x31-GERARD_A2ARx2-3-par_file
9052 GPUGRID 03-31-14 09:57 Temporarily failed download of A2ARNULx2x04x31-GERARD_A2ARx2-3-pdb_file: transient HTTP error
9053 GPUGRID 03-31-14 09:57 Backing off 00:07:45 on download of A2ARNULx2x04x31-GERARD_A2ARx2-3-pdb_file
9054 GPUGRID 03-31-14 09:57 Started download of A2ARNULx2x04x31-GERARD_A2ARx2-3-psf_file
9055 03-31-14 09:57 Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
9056 03-31-14 09:57 Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.

Like you said, even loading forum posts or forum reply pages... seem to get interrupted. Only have the page loads, then a stall for a couple seconds, then it finally loads. Almost like packets are being dropped.

Out of my 30 projects, I believe this is the only one having a problem. So there must be some sort of connectivity issue, near to GPUGrid.

Edit: Here is a tracert from me to you guys, and also a ping displaying high ping times and moderate packet loss.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert www.gpugrid.net

Tracing route to www.gpugrid.net [193.146.190.61]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
  2     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.0.1
  3    69 ms    72 ms    29 ms  cable-mac1.riganyaa-ar4002.nyroc.rr.com [142.105.176.1]
  4    13 ms    11 ms    12 ms  gig9-3.riganyaa-rtr002.wny.northeast.rr.com [24.93.9.26]
  5    13 ms    14 ms    11 ms  rdc-72-230-153-162.wny.east.twcable.com [72.230.153.162]
  6    31 ms    31 ms    27 ms  rdc-72-230-153-243.wny.east.twcable.com [72.230.153.243]
  7    31 ms    30 ms    42 ms  be45.cr0.chi10.tbone.rr.com [107.14.19.106]
  8    28 ms    27 ms    41 ms  ae4.pr1.chi10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.1.66]
  9    43 ms    79 ms    64 ms  te0-3-0-27.ccr21.ord03.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.11.145]
 10   109 ms   107 ms    28 ms  be2005.ccr21.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.73]
 11    47 ms    57 ms    43 ms  be2082.ccr22.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.28.10]
 12    45 ms    44 ms    47 ms  be2093.ccr22.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44.106]
 13   112 ms   110 ms   114 ms  be2385.ccr22.lpl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44.142]
 14   138 ms   156 ms   120 ms  be2283.ccr21.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.49.33]
 15   145 ms   132 ms   130 ms  be2274.mpd22.par01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.50.98]
 16   141 ms   146 ms   146 ms  be2249.ccr22.mad05.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.60.242]
 17   174 ms   141 ms   143 ms  149.11.68.2
 18   142 ms   160 ms   157 ms  CIEMAT.GE6-0-0.cica.rt1.and.red.rediris.es [130.206.245.38]
 19   141 ms   158 ms   158 ms  CICA.XE1-0-2.uv.rt1.val.red.rediris.es [130.206.245.34]
 20   177 ms   160 ms   164 ms  anella-val2-router.red.rediris.es [130.206.211.74]
 21   160 ms   171 ms   174 ms  upf-imim-anella.cesca.cat [84.88.16.6]
 22   164 ms     *      165 ms  193.146.190.61

Trace complete.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping -t 193.146.190.61

Pinging 193.146.190.61 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=183ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=196ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Request timed out.
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=169ms TTL=44
Request timed out.
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=182ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=44
Request timed out.
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=202ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=165ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=168ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=180ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=198ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=178ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44
Reply from 193.146.190.61: bytes=32 time=167ms TTL=44

Ping statistics for 193.146.190.61:
    Packets: Sent = 49, Received = 46, Lost = 3 (6% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 163ms, Maximum = 203ms, Average = 170ms
Control-C
^C
C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Any ideas admins? Probably some router between here and Barcelona, eh?

Here is additional information... ping stats from some of the last hops in my trace route.

Basically, it appears that there is a communications issue between the following 2 hops:
CICA.XE1-0-2.uv.rt1.val.red.rediris.es [130.206.245.34]
anella-val2-router.red.rediris.es [130.206.211.74]
... right?

It's possible there are even additional communications problems in the hops that are even closer to GPUGrid, but for me, it seems the problems start between those 2 hops.

Ping statistics for 130.206.245.34:
    Packets: Sent = 206, Received = 206, Lost = 0 (0% loss)

Ping statistics for 130.206.211.74:
    Packets: Sent = 87, Received = 80, Lost = 7 (8% loss)

Ping statistics for 84.88.16.6:
    Packets: Sent = 70, Received = 57, Lost = 13 (18% loss)

Slow here as well.

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The very slow download problem seems to have been resolved in the last couple days, at least here. Whoever fixed it, a big thanks.

I think we were overloading the server with CPU WUs. Now that we relaxed it a bit it seems to run faster for all of us :)

The very slow download problem seems to have been resolved in the last couple days, at least here. Whoever fixed it, a big thanks.

Didn't change a thing, but happy to take the credit!

Matt

Thanks for the replies. I was wondering about that because the slowdown coincided with the CPU WU rollout. Anyway at least here the download speeds have returned to normal.

Very very slow here, about 2-5 KBps max. east Canada, Québec.

Very very slow here, about 2-5 KBps max. east Canada, Québec.

Slow in Netherlands too around 8KBps.

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Greetings from TJ

3,12KBps Download speed here in Denmark

I'm experiencing this in Hungary too.
The strange part is that the upload speed is ok.
EDIT: The download is usually gets "temporarily failed".

Slow download here, too, I have been downloading the same units for several hours. Upload is ok. If you need to shut the servers for a while, to fix this, then shut them down.

Me too, upload seems to be fine. Download is running at 8 KBps. Over 33 minutes to download a 16.86 MB file.

Download speeds are 2-14k and several times the download process stopped and needed to be manually reactivated. Video cards are starting to go hungry waiting for new tasks that take a very long time to download. Other BOINC projects are downloading their tasks at their normal and customary speeds.

VERY slow here. Slow to the point of BOINC backing off the downloads for a while, trying again for a couple minutes and getting maybe another 300kb, then backing off again. I've had to enable other projects just to keep my GPUs crunching.