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Topic: youtube download |
Alan Miller
From:
, England, UK.
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 3:12 am |
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Hi everyone , I have been using tubesock on a MAC to download youtube videos but recently I have been getting this.
Download failed too many http redirects.
Anybody know what it is ?
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Wiz Feinberg
From:
Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 10 Oct 2008 11:01 am
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Http requests and redirects have to do with the server hosting the files and the routers along the path to it. The TTL set by the server must be too short for the hops the data is taking to get to you. All you can do is disconnect the modem, power it off for a few minutes, then power it on, connect it and hope to get a new IP address and hopefully, a better routing situation.
Other than that you could try running a tracert, from a command prompt, on the domain in question and see where the bottlenecks are that are causing the timeouts. If you don't have tracert, try Ping (domain).
Basically, these matters are out of the hands of end users.
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Alan Miller
From:
, England, UK.
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Posted 11 Oct 2008 12:04 am
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| Wiz , Thanks ,I will try the disconnecting the modem first hopefully that will work 'cos im not sure what the other fixes are or how to do them, might need to get back to you on it if thats ok . |
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Alan Miller
From:
, England, UK.
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Posted 13 Oct 2008 1:07 pm
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Hello again Wiz, I have tried powering off my router but still not able to download youtube vids.
I am struggling to find the other two possble fixes you told me about.
I dont know what a Tracert is and dont know where to find the command prompt, oh what a nucklehead.
Im about as far behind you in computer knowhow as I am behind Big E on PSG !
Is there a layman's explanation for tracert and ping ??  |
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Sean Ray
From:
Madison, Wisconsin
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Posted 17 Oct 2008 11:35 am
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If you're on a mac open up Network Utility which is inside your Applications folder in a subfolder called Utilities. You can run ping and traceroute from there without using the Terminal (command prompt).
FYI Ping just sends X amount of packets to a specified IP address (like your router) to see if it's online.
Traceroute (or tracert depending on your syntax) does a similar thing but tells you about all of the IP addresses it goes through on the way to and from it's destination.
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Alan Miller
From:
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Posted 17 Oct 2008 10:39 pm
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| Sean , Thanks, that is an explanation i can follow I will give that a go. |
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