I am running IE7 and also have Firefox installed.  I have attempted to download some of the files available via the website, and keep getting timeouts.

I have even gone to the effort of making this site a "Trusted Site" for IE and still to no avail.  I keep getting timeouts when trying to download the files.

I have tried turning off my firewall and found that the website then prompts for an FTP login to access the files.

Firefox just times out.  I am in Western Australia, so not sure if this is happening because the server is kaput or being backed up.  I know if I go to work in the morning and use IE6 there (which has a proxy firewall) I can download the files without a problem. 

Is the server backing up at the times I am trying to download it??  I am writing this message at 5:03pm Western Australian / Australia time.  Any help would be appreciated as there are a couple of planes that I would really like to fly.

Hey thanks for the reply there Paul.

No I do not have any problems with accessing any other sites.  I have accessed various other Flight Sim websites that have downloads available and they all work perfectly fine.  In fact at one point I was downloading about 8 files at once from another website.  So it's not the PC or my ISP.

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the response.  I have now checked this today and using the tips on getting downloads have compiled the following.  Basically I just can not get access to download anything at all.

Web Browser
* Using IE7 with browser settings set low, privacy set to low and the website set as a "Trusted Source", pop-up blockers disabled

* Using Firefox

Firewalls
* Windows firewall not running, security centre turned off.
* Added server IP to allow traffic at all times
* Have turned off firewall as well

No Download Manager software running
No Opera Browser installed
Not running through a Proxy server at home - works fine on my work proxy server

Machine is cold booted everyday

Ran a tracert on www.simviation.com with a full trace all the way back to the server with no problems

Tracing route to www.simviation.com [205.252.250.27]

over a maximum of 30 hops:



  1  1489 ms     2 ms     2 ms  www.routerlogin.com
  2    50 ms    23 ms    23 ms  lo0.rba-7206-c.wa.amnet.net.au
  3   132 ms    23 ms    24 ms 
  4    37 ms    23 ms    23 ms  ge0-2.br01.wa.amnet.net.au
  5   125 ms    29 ms    25 ms  Vlan229.O6SSC76FE.optus.net.au
  6   237 ms   251 ms   181 ms  ge-1-1-4-0.sngtp-dr1.ix.singtel.com
  7   183 ms   184 ms   181 ms  ge-0-1-0-0.sngtp-ar6.ix.singtel.com [203.208.154.9]
  8   212 ms   184 ms   183 ms  ge-1-1-0-0.sngtp-dr1.ix.singtel.com [203.208.149.166]
  9   181 ms   181 ms   181 ms  ge-1-0-0-0.sngc3-dr1.ix.singtel.com [203.208.173.134]
10   181 ms   209 ms   181 ms  ge-5-0-0-0.sngc3-ar4.ix.singtel.com [203.208.149.149]
11   195 ms   302 ms   196 ms  so-4-1-3-0.hkgcw-cr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.182.70]
12   382 ms   275 ms   290 ms  ge5-13.br01.hkg04.pccwbtn.net [63.218.115.49]
13   350 ms   409 ms   357 ms  simviation.com [205.252.250.27]

Trace complete.  (note removed some of the IP addresses referencing my IP).

I did however run a pathping to the server and there is a 100% failure at once hop.  Looks like the problem might possibly be the hosting site for simviation??

On further investigation of my PC to see what was causing the issue, I found that the Microsoft Firewall on my workstation had re-enabled itself after I had turned off "security centre" and also disabled it from running altogether so that I am able to use my own solutions.

Thanks for the help Pete and everyone else, now I just have to go find a way to permanently remove MS Firewall from starting itself, even though it's been set not to.  I am so annoyed at the moment.

Hi Fozzer,

Not sure if you saw that I had tried Firefox as well with the same problems.  So far IE7 hasn't caused me many problems and I prefer it to Firefox.  I did use Firefox for quite sometime but found it lacking in certain areas so moved back to IE.   

No problems Fozzer, but as my job is working with computers, if a computer problem does occur then I need to find out what has caused it, why it broke and how to stop it from happening again.  However I do relax by taking a spin in the Extra 300S around Rio De Janiero in Brazil.  Now that is very relaxing.  

I can download at every site but here, and it started only two months ago! Please, does anyone know what I can do?

Read the post just above my last one, it is also mine (sorry for double posting)
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