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Slow download of .xls files
I occasionally download, from more than one website, .xls files containing
financial data. I do so by right clicking on the file name, selecting €śsave target as,€ť giving it a name and hitting save. Within the past few weeks, the downloads have gotten very slow. They may start out at 800 bytes per second, then go to 122 bytes per second, then 42 then 25€¦None of my other internet functions [browsing, e-mail, etc. have slowed down; just the downloading of .xls files.] Even small files of 25 kb now take many minutes to download. Clearly something is wrong. Any ideas or suggestions? thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this, Geoff |
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Slow download of .xls files
Tschurin wrote:
I occasionally download, from more than one website, .xls files containing financial data. I do so by right clicking on the file name, selecting €śsave target as,€ť giving it a name and hitting save. Within the past few weeks, the downloads have gotten very slow. They may start out at 800 bytes per second, then go to 122 bytes per second, then 42 then 25€¦None of my other internet functions [browsing, e-mail, etc. have slowed down; just the downloading of .xls files.] Even small files of 25 kb now take many minutes to download. Clearly something is wrong. Any ideas or suggestions? thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this, Geoff This isn't an Excel problem; it's an Internet connection problem of some kind, possibly site related. Bill |
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Slow download of .xls files
First of all, I should have mentioned that my computer has Windows XP
professional and Excel 2007, and that my ISP is Verizon DSL. I did two €śspeed tests,€ť one of which clocked my download speed at 400 kb per second, the other at 600 kb. Even if the actual speed were only half the lower estimate, that still shouldnt cause a problem for a 90 kb file, which is the size of the following file from one of the websites where I am having this problem. After five minutes, it still hasnt downloaded. http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf...P500EPSEST.XLS Yet this power point file at the same website, which is almost twice as large, downloads in about one second. http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf...Powerpoint.ppt "Bill Sharpe" wrote: Tschurin wrote: I occasionally download, from more than one website, .xls files containing financial data. I do so by right clicking on the file name, selecting €śsave target as,€ť giving it a name and hitting save. Within the past few weeks, the downloads have gotten very slow. They may start out at 800 bytes per second, then go to 122 bytes per second, then 42 then 25€¦None of my other internet functions [browsing, e-mail, etc. have slowed down; just the downloading of .xls files.] Even small files of 25 kb now take many minutes to download. Clearly something is wrong. Any ideas or suggestions? thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this, Geoff This isn't an Excel problem; it's an Internet connection problem of some kind, possibly site related. Bill |
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Slow download of .xls files
Tschurin wrote:
First of all, I should have mentioned that my computer has Windows XP professional and Excel 2007, and that my ISP is Verizon DSL. I did two €śspeed tests,€ť one of which clocked my download speed at 400 kb per second, the other at 600 kb. Even if the actual speed were only half the lower estimate, that still shouldnt cause a problem for a 90 kb file, which is the size of the following file from one of the websites where I am having this problem. After five minutes, it still hasnt downloaded. http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf...P500EPSEST.XLS Yet this power point file at the same website, which is almost twice as large, downloads in about one second. http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf...Powerpoint.ppt "Bill Sharpe" wrote: Tschurin wrote: I occasionally download, from more than one website, .xls files containing financial data. I do so by right clicking on the file name, selecting €śsave target as,€ť giving it a name and hitting save. Within the past few weeks, the downloads have gotten very slow. They may start out at 800 bytes per second, then go to 122 bytes per second, then 42 then 25€¦None of my other internet functions [browsing, e-mail, etc. have slowed down; just the downloading of .xls files.] Even small files of 25 kb now take many minutes to download. Clearly something is wrong. Any ideas or suggestions? thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this, Geoff This isn't an Excel problem; it's an Internet connection problem of some kind, possibly site related. Bill I also have XP Pro, Office 2007, but my ISP is Verizon FiOS. I downloaded your reference XLS file in about one second and then opened it in Excel 2007 after running a virus scan on it. The slow download is not an Excel problem; it is a connection problem of some kind. Have you tried downloading XLS files from other locations, such as Microsoft's sites? Have you tried a different browser? I use Firefox. Have you tried saving the file without renaming it? Bill |
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