Enough's enough...help please!

nodlew · 01-04-10, 05:25 PM

Every time I try to download a file from Subsim, whether I just downloaded, or have not downloaded in hours or days, get the following message and it is now officially driving me up the ffffing wall:

Slow Down! You are trying to download files too quickly. You must wait 3 seconds before you may download another file.

Sometimes it says 2 seconds, other times it says 1 second. But it is a cruel joke on me, because it doesn't matter how many gddmn seconds I wait, I get the same message over and over again.
I have tried turning off every Firefox add-on without positive result. I switched to Internet Explorer, and I get the same thing. I am not using any download manager that I know of.
All I want is a decent freaking skin for my U-Boat. Can someone give me some insight into what I crime I have committed against Subsim in this life or perhaps one previous to be so cruelly prevented from downloading files?

danasan · 01-04-10, 05:31 PM

Could you give me the link with the DL, you are looking for? I'd try to give you another download possibility...

Edit: Did you try to erase the temporary internet files in MS Internet Explorer and / or Firefox? Sometimes that helps...

Pisces · 01-04-10, 05:52 PM

Well, the bilge pumps can only push out so much water. Remember Neal had to start a little fundraising campaign recently to pay for website costs. (note to self

) I wouldn't be surprised if this warning was a way to help reduce those costs. You didn't really commit a crime. Other than indulgence.

danasan · 01-04-10, 05:56 PM

OK, if it is because of traffic, we should help as good as we can.

nodlew · 01-04-10, 07:21 PM

Danasan, I appreciate the offer, but it's not just one file that I need, but rather the ability to access the library of files here at Subsim for download.

Pisces, is that the problem? Too many people downloading? I thought I was the only person with this "...you're downloading too fast" malady.

Since when is downloading a U-Boat skin an indulgence? Why do people make them and put them up for downloading if it is indulgent to download them? I suppose anything done for pleasure, or anything the act of which brings by default some pleasure could be considered, strictly speaking, indulgent. But there are degrees. Breathing is, by that measure, something of an indulgence. In the grand scheme of things indulgent, surely downloading a U-Boat skin falls very low on the ladder, so low as to be hardly worth acknowledging it as an indulgence at all, when there are continuously acts occurring all around us so indulgent that they simply cry out for someone to mark them as such and call them to the attention of an indulgence despising humanity. This stream of verbiage, for example. Now this is indulgence.

nodlew · 01-04-10, 07:48 PM

I'll try that. Thanks.

01-04-10, 05:25 PM	#1
nodlew Engineer Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 202 Downloads: 572 Uploads: 0	Enough's enough...help please! Every time I try to download a file from Subsim, whether I just downloaded, or have not downloaded in hours or days, get the following message and it is now officially driving me up the ffffing wall: Slow Down! You are trying to download files too quickly. You must wait 3 seconds before you may download another file. Sometimes it says 2 seconds, other times it says 1 second. But it is a cruel joke on me, because it doesn't matter how many gddmn seconds I wait, I get the same message over and over again. I have tried turning off every Firefox add-on without positive result. I switched to Internet Explorer, and I get the same thing. I am not using any download manager that I know of. All I want is a decent freaking skin for my U-Boat. Can someone give me some insight into what I crime I have committed against Subsim in this life or perhaps one previous to be so cruelly prevented from downloading files?

01-04-10, 05:31 PM	#2
danasan Elite Spam Hunter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Flensburg / Germany Posts: 1,141 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	Could you give me the link with the DL, you are looking for? I'd try to give you another download possibility... Edit: Did you try to erase the temporary internet files in MS Internet Explorer and / or Firefox? Sometimes that helps... Last edited by danasan; 01-04-10 at 05:43 PM.

01-04-10, 05:52 PM	#3
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	Well, the bilge pumps can only push out so much water. Remember Neal had to start a little fundraising campaign recently to pay for website costs. (note to self ) I wouldn't be surprised if this warning was a way to help reduce those costs. You didn't really commit a crime. Other than indulgence. __________________ My site downloads: https://ricojansen.nl/downloads

01-04-10, 07:21 PM	#5
nodlew Engineer Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 202 Downloads: 572 Uploads: 0	Appreciate your replies Danasan, I appreciate the offer, but it's not just one file that I need, but rather the ability to access the library of files here at Subsim for download. Pisces, is that the problem? Too many people downloading? I thought I was the only person with this "...you're downloading too fast" malady. Since when is downloading a U-Boat skin an indulgence? Why do people make them and put them up for downloading if it is indulgent to download them? I suppose anything done for pleasure, or anything the act of which brings by default some pleasure could be considered, strictly speaking, indulgent. But there are degrees. Breathing is, by that measure, something of an indulgence. In the grand scheme of things indulgent, surely downloading a U-Boat skin falls very low on the ladder, so low as to be hardly worth acknowledging it as an indulgence at all, when there are continuously acts occurring all around us so indulgent that they simply cry out for someone to mark them as such and call them to the attention of an indulgence despising humanity. This stream of verbiage, for example. Now this is indulgence.

01-04-10, 07:48 PM	#6
nodlew Engineer Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 202 Downloads: 572 Uploads: 0	Temp files, huh? I'll try that. Thanks.

01-04-10, 05:56 PM	#4
danasan Elite Spam Hunter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Flensburg / Germany Posts: 1,141 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	OK, if it is because of traffic, we should help as good as we can.