After many attempts at downloads of the 2.15GB PCM 176K file I finally was able to successfully download this file late this afternoon by using a VPN to “hide” the download from what appears to be a shape&kill mechanism within Australia’s Telstra BigPond Cable network.
While the DSD file downloaded successfully first time , the much larger PCM file kept being killed-off at around 1.5GB downloaded - due to this shaping mechanism gone awry.
So if you are located in Australia and using Telstra Bigpond cable network be aware that this shape&kill mechanism might prevent the larger download. As normal HTTP downloads are not meant to be shaped let alone killed I will be reporting this to Telstra Support to have the defective shaper fixed. Depending on where this shaper is located in the Telstra network may mean an adverse impact on other Internet users such as ADSL too. Since it is not meant to exist it is difficult to know even where it is !
I especially thank Paul and Sean of PS Audio for their help & assistance in resolving this very unusual situation.
The extended version of this saga is Post 3 in the thread I started on why I was missing an audiophile account - which turned out to be irrelevant to the primary issue of the failed downloads.
Something also I found during testing - if you use Firefox as your browser than I have found the download of files by clicking a link in an Outlook mail to be unreliable - and may also attempt more than 1 download session in Firefox when you click. I find it more reliable to copy the hyperlink contents within the email - and then copy that data into a new browser session. Guaranteed to not create duplicate download sessions in Firefox that way.
It will probably also be another week before I receive my One disk - so I am happy to receive the downloaded files earlier today - even if resolving the problem took a lot of effort. In the longer term I need reliable downloads from the PS Audio download server and this errant shaper will be causing havoc across the Telstra cable network if you meet the trigger conditions - which unfortunately my PCM 176K downloads do. I will report this fault to Telstra Support but may take them a while to actually fix since they will have to admit having such a mechanism in the first instance.
Geoff