SideFX Downloads Stalling?

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Anyone else having this problem? Happens to me here at work and at home using Firefox. Basically when I try to download something from SideFX, be it the most recent build of apprentice or perhaps a video or a PDF, the download will start normally and then hang up a few minutes in. If I pause the download and restart it repeatedly in Firefox's download manager I can get it to finish, but otherwise I can't get a download to continue to completion. Only happens with SideFX in my experience, but it's been this way for a while. No one else seeing this?
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It happens to me periodically and then usually clears up in a couple of days for some reason.

Just FYI It's broken for me too this morning.
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Are you running Avast?
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yep, avast blocks the dl from side effects in my experience. don't know why, but disable it temporarily (or use another comp if you have any) and all goes smooth.
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I'm not running avast. On a Mac here. Doesn't mean some other corporate AV tool isn't doing though. It would be nice if the DL link was a simple FTP link though. That way I could put it into an FTP client it would take care of doing the restarts if the DL stopped.
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It used to happen to me a lot — not lately though, and I don't know what changed on our end.
Jason Iversen, Technology Supervisor & FX Pipeline/R+D Lead @ Weta FX
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