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toTOW wrote:If a VPN doesn't help, the issue is localised on your system. Do you have some security software suite (Norton, Kaspersky, BitDefender, ...) that could interfere with your network connections ?

nothing except the the windows defender, which turning off doesn't help

NathanOldfield wrote:I am having exactly the same problem.

Are you also using the 7.5.1 client? Maybe it's a problem with the client itself, at this point I can't see anything else that could be the problem

There is definitely something interfering with your FAH transfers. :( It could be interesting to use Wireshark to see how the packets returned look like. You might want to try a public proxy (but good luck finding one that work reliably) or a VPN ... I bought ExpressVPN and connected to the UK serv...

There is definitely something interfering with your FAH transfers. :( It could be interesting to use Wireshark to see how the packets returned look like. You might want to try a public proxy (but good luck finding one that work reliably) or a VPN ... I have WireShark running but I don't know what p...

I forwarded ports 80 and 8080 but that didn't help either

If you're in a country that restricts internet access (or political speech) you don't. but the proxy might work. If the problem is local to your machine, answer my questions above. If you're on your employer's internet service (or a university connection) be careful, too. Well my country (Israel) d...

Some ISPs (or countries) use transparent firewall/proxy to protect their users (or citizens). It may cause issues with FAH because these systems are usually set to allow only "known browsers". Although FAH Client act as a browser, it is not a "known browser". Are you sure that y...

Open one of the links (http://cores.foldingathome.org/v7/win/64bit/Core_22.fah) in your browser. Does it ask permission to save the downloaded file? Does it successfully download the file? (You can't use that file, so delete it.) Now ask yourself why FAHClient can't do the same thing? It's not a se...

I keep getting these errors- 22:40:48:WU00:FS00:Downloading core from http://cores.foldingathome.org/v7/win/64bit/avx/Core_a7.fah 22:40:48:WU00:FS00:Connecting to cores.foldingathome.org:80 22:40:49:ERROR:WU00:FS00:Exception: Failed reading core package header. 22:41:48:WU00:FS00:Downloading core fr...