Well, here's what happens. Im busy trying to get a wallpaper and the connection resets. This happens about 7 times, and finally, when it does load, it says "Pwn3d"

The Pwn3d comes after the first few times where the wallpaper loads 1/2 way :-s

I wasted 8 on my free download quota for just one wallpaper

This is a broken link
report it when u see one.
There was no need to repeatedly attempt to download it.
and sad as it may be, that is a waste. too bad.

Quote by DevildudeThis is a broken link
report it when u see one.
There was no need to repeatedly attempt to download it.
and sad as it may be, that is a waste. too bad.

Except that I said it wasnt broken.

When the image loads (even partially), it means the link isnt broken.
There is a difference between a broken link and a broken server

Yeah, this is happening with me, too, on every page I view and every wall I try to download. So far, I figure about 14 or 15 of my free downloads have already been burned up, yet I haven't gotten a single thing. Image connections will simply freeze in mid-transfer and never come back up. Hitting refresh or going back and re-clicking the link just starts the process all over again with the same results. Hell, sometimes even the entire page refuses to load, even though I already know that the page itself is good (because I've already been to it once, despite the incomplete image downloads).

Seriously, this is something wrong with the server and its connections. Any idea what's causing it or has it been investigated yet?

I also notice some problems. ACtually, a lot... the images just won't load. Huh. Sometimes it'd load, but be blurry. Other times, only halfway. Other times it wouldn't load, period. And sometimes, "no data" or something would pop up.

It would seem Mt is going through some server problems at the moment which would explain for the sudden slowness of the site and misloading of pages. So the only thing we can do is be patient and hope things are fixed soon.

Quote by AvatarZeroYeah, this is happening with me, too, on every page I view and every wall I try to download. So far, I figure about 14 or 15 of my free downloads have already been burned up, yet I haven't gotten a single thing. Image connections will simply freeze in mid-transfer and never come back up. Hitting refresh or going back and re-clicking the link just starts the process all over again with the same results. Hell, sometimes even the entire page refuses to load, even though I already know that the page itself is good (because I've already been to it once, despite the incomplete image downloads).

Seriously, this is something wrong with the server and its connections. Any idea what's causing it or has it been investigated yet?

I did some investigating:

The issue (as firefox tells me) is that the connection resets during mid-transfer.
If anything, it seems like an overhead management issue in apache, but I could be wrong.

Had the same problem, wasted about 5 free downloads. Even on forum posts I had a problem.

now it looks ok, the speed just got fixed again.
I think whatever was wrong is ok now.

merged: 12-18-2005 ~ 06:59am
I just downloaded 7 images easily. no failures.

I think what actually happened is they were attempting to load a new layout and it threw a wrench in the works, because I was seeing the same slowdowns and errors, and it took me 5 tries to send one PM. Anyway, I just stayed off the site for 1 day and came back and it was normal again... Probably they decided to work more of the bugs out of that new layout before they tried again.

Anyways, I'd say when the server gets bad like that, just leave it alone for a while until they work the bugs out.