Post by thread:Downloading from Microchip's site

Hello, fellow PICers... I've been trying to download MPLAB 3.09.02 from Microchip's WWW site. I 've tried downloading four different times, two different nights. Each time, the download terminates after approximately seven minutes. Seems to be time based, rather than number-of-bytes-downloaded based. Not enough time for me to get the entire file. My question is - Do others have this problem, and if not, what's the fix?? A somewhat related question - Do other people besides me get consistently slow transfer rates?? I average between 100 and 400 bytes/sec from Microchip, whereas I often get 1.4 to 1.7 k from other sites. Perhaps they could do a "mirror" site on the East Coast? And _also_ 8^), I can no longer get at Microchip's BBS via Compuserve. It refers me to ftp to mchipbbs.microchip.com . When I use Netscape or Netcruiser to go there, my browser crashes (I think this is related to the non-existence of such an ftp site.) Ans thoughts?? Enuf for now - thanx for listening 8^) Shel Michaels spam_OUTsbmichaelsTakeThisOuTaol.com http://members.aol.com/sbmichaels

part 0 689 bytes yup, me too. I'm using MPLAB version 2.21 and want an updated version so I can use MPSIM on another machine here that doesn't have a picmaster. Best I've managed is almost 600k of MPLAB3.09's 1.9MB. As for slow transfer rates, I don't have a 1M/sec connection..., I've got a v34 modem (and a p-75) and usually manage to connect at 24k - I've not worked out what data rate I get over a long period of time. I'm not in a position to invest in "better kit" either, as we don't use the 'net enough to warrant a direct connection, so I make do with a pipex dial service (auto mail forwarding) and microsoft exchange. - Andy. Andy David, Ultronics Division, Ultra Hydraulics.

Shel Michaels wrote: > > Hello, fellow PICers... > > I've been trying to download MPLAB 3.09.02 from Microchip's WWW site. I > 've tried downloading four different times, two different nights. Each time, > the download terminates after approximately seven minutes. Seems to be time > based, rather than number-of-bytes-downloaded based. Not enough time for me > to get the entire file. > > My question is - > Do others have this problem, and if not, what's the fix?? > > > Shel Michaels Hi Shel, I don't have any problem with downloading. I did it during the last 20 minutes (MPLAB309.EXE and LBHP309.EXE). No problem. I logged on to the ftp site MCHIPBBS.MICROCHIP.COM with my registered user name and it worked very good. Wolfram -- +-----------------------------------------------+ ! Wolfram Liebchen, .....liebchenKILLspam@spam@ipserv.ffo.fgan.de ! ! Forschungsinstitut fuer Optik ! ! Schloss Kressbach ! ! D-72072 Tuebingen ! ! Tel: +49 (0)7071 / 709-158 ! ! Fax: +49 (0)7071 / 709-270 (G3 / G4) ! +-----------------------------------------------+

> And _also_ 8^), I can no longer get at Microchip's BBS via Compuserve. It > refers me to ftp to mchipbbs.microchip.com . When I use Netscape or > Netcruiser to go there, my browser crashes (I think this is related to the > non-existence of such an ftp site.) Ans thoughts?? > I got the CIS message too. I was getting a 'server error' on mchipbbs.microchip.com until yesterday. Could not find the new MPLAB on there yet. ********************************************************** *Mike DeMetz SYSCON International * *mikedKILLspamsyscon-intl.com South Bend, IN USA * *aka .....73165.1230KILLspam.....compuserve.com using Pegasus Mail * **********************************************************

I tried it last night and had the same problem. Have you had any luck since then? I'm going to try the ftp site instead of Netscrape. I haven't tried the BBS yet. At 03:06 AM 6/5/96 -0400, you wrote: {Quote hidden}>Hello, fellow PICers... > > I've been trying to download MPLAB 3.09.02 from Microchip's WWW site. I >'ve tried downloading four different times, two different nights. Each time, >the download terminates after approximately seven minutes. Seems to be time >based, rather than number-of-bytes-downloaded based. Not enough time for me >to get the entire file. > > My question is - > Do others have this problem, and if not, what's the fix?? > > A somewhat related question - Do other people besides me get consistently >slow transfer rates?? I average between 100 and 400 bytes/sec from >Microchip, whereas I often get 1.4 to 1.7 k from other sites. Perhaps they >could do a "mirror" site on the East Coast? > > And _also_ 8^), I can no longer get at Microchip's BBS via Compuserve. It >refers me to ftp to mchipbbs.microchip.com . When I use Netscape or >Netcruiser to go there, my browser crashes (I think this is related to the >non-existence of such an ftp site.) Ans thoughts?? > >Enuf for now - thanx for listening 8^) > >Shel Michaels >EraseMEsbmichaelsspam_OUTTakeThisOuTaol.com >http://members.aol.com/sbmichaels > > Thank you, Bryan

> > Hello, fellow PICers... > > I've been trying to download MPLAB 3.09.02 from Microchip's WWW site. I > 've tried downloading four different times, two different nights. Each time, > the download terminates after approximately seven minutes. Seems to be time > based, rather than number-of-bytes-downloaded based. Not enough time for me > to get the entire file. > > My question is - > Do others have this problem, and if not, what's the fix?? > I just downloaded MPLAB and had no problem, but I have a direct internet connection so it doesn't take over seven minutes. > A somewhat related question - Do other people besides me get consistently > slow transfer rates?? I average between 100 and 400 bytes/sec from > Microchip, whereas I often get 1.4 to 1.7 k from other sites. Perhaps they > could do a "mirror" site on the East Coast? > I got an 11k transfer rate at 2:30 EDT. I am located in New Hampshire, so it was a west to east coast transfer. I don't think it's a problem with Microchip's site. Keith Keith D. Kotay kotayspam_OUTcs.dartmouth.edu http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotay

> Shel Michaels wrote: > > > > Hello, fellow PICers... > > > > I've been trying to download MPLAB 3.09.02 from Microchip's WWW site. I > > 've tried downloading four different times, two different nights. Each time, > > the download terminates after approximately seven minutes. Seems to be time > > based, rather than number-of-bytes-downloaded based. Not enough time for me > > to get the entire file. > > > > My question is - > > Do others have this problem, and if not, what's the fix?? > > > > Hi, I have the same problem: I start to download e.g. 40122d.pdf (832K of PIC14000 data sheet). The transfer rate is around 0.5 KB/s. Then it goes down and down so that the estimated download time shown in the download box stays always around 50 minutes =:^0 and sometimes increases during the "download" to more than 1:10. Eventually, the transfer aborts at about 300-400 KB. I think that the server containing Microchip documents is very strange because at the same time when I have the problems with download I can access all Microchip WWW pages (e.g. press releases) and download them with normal speed. Bye Jindra --- Jindra Vavruska FIDO: 2:423/33.7 Ravennska 322 FAX/VOICE: +42-2-7864602 109 00 Praha 10 Czech Republic (hobby: PIC)

Hi, For people, who have problems with downloading from Microchip's WWW site, I would advice to use FTP mail service provided by some servers. You simply send requests to the server in an E-mail message, and it sends you any file you want via E-mail in response. This way you can leave all downloading problems to the mail server. I personally use the BITNET FTP Server on the Warsaw University. To get e.g. the PIC14000 data sheet I would send following mail to @spam@BITFTPKILLspamplearn.edu.pl : ftp ftp.ultranet.com uuencode user anonymous cd biz/mchip/lit/assp binary chunksize 0 get 40122a.pdf quit Unfortunately you can only get files from FTP sites this way. Send "HELP" in the body of your mail message to the server to obtain more info. - Piotr Piotr Piatek KILLspampisielekKILLspaminet.com.pl