On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Michael Berkowski wrote: > On Jul 9, 2011 7:35 PM, "Mike Miller" <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is a problem that I have fairly often. It happens between various >> pairs of computers, but always at least one of the two is at the U. >> I'll start transferring a big file via scp and will eventually see the >> KB/s decline until the ETA disappears and it says "- stalled -" instead >> of the ETA. Any idea what that is about? It could happen at any time >> in the process -- the last few attempts failed at 109MB, 16MB and 45MB >> while downloading an ubuntu .iso file. I was also unable to do it via >> web browser. > > I often have a similar problem with wifi on recent kernels and a BCM4311 > chipset. Never found a solution other than to plug into ethernet when I > need to retrieve or transfer a large file. It occurred to me that maybe sftp is better for large files than is scp, so I tried the transfer with sftp and it worked on the first attempt. That was after four consecutive failures with scp and a maximum download of 23% of the file. Mike