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TXGRunner
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Download fails instantly, no information on cause

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I am using 4.5.1 [3b72a00] on MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2. I use NZBgeek and eweka with Sonarr. Everything worked fine two weeks ago in a hotel. I moved into a new place, same network provider, and now all the downloads fail instantly. The error information doesn't even stay in history, it cycles out very quickly.

Looking at other threads, I tried doing a test download of 100MB, and that worked fine.

In case the ISP was doing something, I switched to a VPN and even chose Holland as the country for the VPN server. The 100-300MB files fail.

As the test file worked, I assume this is not Sab per se, but rather the interaction with the news server. Unfortunately, without any error info on why the connection failed, I don't know where else to look. Any ideas on things to try or look at will be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Download fails instantly, no information on cause

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> The error information doesn't even stay in history, it cycles out very quickly.

Done by Sonarr?

> Looking at other threads, I tried doing a test download of 100MB, and that worked fine.

Good. And that means "all the downloads fail instantly" is not true?


If you go into NZBgeek with your webbroser, download a .NZB manually, put that .NZB into SABnzbd and let it download ... what happens?
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Post by safihre »

Check the Archive, it's in the bottom of the History.
There you should be able to see them.
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Re: Download fails instantly, no information on cause

Post by TXGRunner »

Thanks for the responses, I will do further troubleshooting.
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