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General Support / Cannot Download ubermix-key4.03.img

« on: September 09, 2018, 06:02:33 PM »

This has been failing for me at least a week.  I can begin the download, but it always ends up being around 20MB and that's impossible.


If I try to allow it to download through Google Sync it also fails:


Is there another way to acquire this download or is it corrupt and can be overwritten with a new copy?  I've downloaded the previous version some months ago without any difficulty so not sure whats going on.

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General Support / Re: internet connection problems on ubuntu

« on: September 09, 2018, 05:53:44 PM »

I have this problem with my Internet Service Provider.  The cause of it is mostly because my ISP is terrible and blocking packets when a certain limit inbound or outbound is hit.  Usually, my issue is that my outbound ceiling of 300 kbps is hit and that slams the door shut on inbound traffic as well.  Sometimes the only way to resolve this is to cut down on your traffic by applying network usage reduction techniques such as:

• Restrict phone on Wifi as much as possible during awake hours.
• Enable data caching on as many mobile apps as possible.  Some techniques from Republic Wireless can be applied as well.  https://help.republicwireless.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006487907-Optimize-Apps-for-WiFi
• Use ad filters like Adblock Plus, AdGuard, or uBlock
• Schedule backups and heavy network loads for the hours you are asleep.
• Use 1.1.1.1 for DNS; https://1.1.1.1/

You can verify if your ISP is indeed the problem by running a smoke ping service against your public IP address through http://www.dslreports.com/smokeping so long as your router is not blocking ping requests.  I think this may be free one or a few times, but costs a little money to have it run as a service throughout the day, but its worth it in order to get an idea of how long you're getting outages throughout the day.

If it's not your ISP then you likely have something misconfigured on your network or even a bad network cable involved.  It really looks to me though like your network is being dropped as communication is underway or waiting for a response.

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General Support / This Forum's Login and Registration Security Risk

« on: September 09, 2018, 05:34:21 PM »

Not using HTTPS to pass credentials is a big security risk. 

I get that this is just a forum, but an account's user can lose credibility really fast if something starts doing a massive spam campaign.  It looks like there is a lot of attention to detail to mitigate spam with captchas and whatnot so why not just enable HTTPS?

This can be done for free too.  https://medium.freecodecamp.org/free-https-c051ca570324