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Has anybody figured out how to download from ASUS.
I want to download the Win 7 drivers for my P6T Dlx, and here's the procedure I follow: - I go to the download page where all drivers, etc., are listed. - I select a driver to download, and the site to download from, i.e., Global. - I'm presented with a graphic verification key which I type into the adjacent box. - When I press the enter button next to the box, I'm immediately returned to the download page with no download. What am I doing wrong? |
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Ian D wrote:
Has anybody figured out how to download from ASUS. I want to download the Win 7 drivers for my P6T Dlx, and here's the procedure I follow: - I go to the download page where all drivers, etc., are listed. - I select a driver to download, and the site to download from, i.e., Global. - I'm presented with a graphic verification key which I type into the adjacent box. - When I press the enter button next to the box, I'm immediately returned to the download page with no download. What am I doing wrong? You'll notice that the first time you go to Asus, you'll get a "Bad Request - Invalid Hostname". This is presumably caused by the hosting used by Asus. It is a problem at the server end. (It is how the server converts support.asus.com into a local machine name in the hosting site.) The same response, can happen at any time during the download procedure. So perhaps you're just about to get your download, you click the button. A "Invalid Hostname" happens again, and the response happens to be hidden by the script being used. Sometimes, all that is needed, is to repeat the operation a second time. OK, I did a test similar to yours, and right now, the Captcha is disabled. So perhaps something is wrong with the Captcha system, and all they needed to do is disable it. Any time you have a similar situation, there are some alternatives. Hold your mouse over the link you'd normally click to start a download. Copy the link and paste into Notepad, so you can pick the link apart. javascript:downloadfile(this,'P6T%20Deluxe','misc/sata/Marvell6121_SATA_V12068_V12069.zip', '1','29','1','1','Marvell6121_SATA_V12068_V12069.z ip','0') Take note of the portion of that, which is the file path specification. Glue that onto an alternate link, such as the following. ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/misc/...068_V12069.zip http://dlcdnas.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mis...068_V12069.zip http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mis...068_V12069.zip http://dlsvr.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/...068_V12069.zip The FTP site probably doesn't run too fast, but it is better than nothing. At least some of Asus transfers are done using Akamai, but Asus seems to have a number of alternatives they switch in from time to time. Some give the appearance of having Asus hostnames. Asus has seemed to suffer for long periods of time, from what appears to be denial of service (downloads requested by bots, instead of by customers trying to get their motherboards running). On the one hand, Akamai should have given virtually infinite bandwidth, but perhaps Asus installed Captcha to try to reduce the billing they're getting from Akamai. Otherwise, there seems to be no logic to when the Asus site is reduced to a crawl, versus when it is doing well. The server loading, doesn't seem to correspond to the yearly sales cycle. To me, it doesn't seem like the slowness of the Asus server, is caused purely by actual customers. There has to be more going on than that. Captcha is hardly a panacea, and I'm surprised Asus even bothered. Captcha has been beaten a number of times. And in some cases, humans are engaged to beat the system, in a distributed way. So if a company really expects to defend their servers from attack by using Captcha, it is a hopeless cat and mouse game. The images Asus is using right now, are not really a challenge as Captcha goes, so I don't know what they hope to stop. Anyone that owns a botnet, probably has access to Captcha busting technology to run on the bots. The scheme Asus is using right now, is about as weak as it gets. Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... Ian D wrote: Has anybody figured out how to download from ASUS. I want to download the Win 7 drivers for my P6T Dlx, and here's the procedure I follow: - I go to the download page where all drivers, etc., are listed. - I select a driver to download, and the site to download from, i.e., Global. - I'm presented with a graphic verification key which I type into the adjacent box. - When I press the enter button next to the box, I'm immediately returned to the download page with no download. What am I doing wrong? You'll notice that the first time you go to Asus, you'll get a "Bad Request - Invalid Hostname". This is presumably caused by the hosting used by Asus. It is a problem at the server end. (It is how the server converts support.asus.com into a local machine name in the hosting site.) The same response, can happen at any time during the download procedure. So perhaps you're just about to get your download, you click the button. A "Invalid Hostname" happens again, and the response happens to be hidden by the script being used. Sometimes, all that is needed, is to repeat the operation a second time. OK, I did a test similar to yours, and right now, the Captcha is disabled. So perhaps something is wrong with the Captcha system, and all they needed to do is disable it. Any time you have a similar situation, there are some alternatives. Hold your mouse over the link you'd normally click to start a download. Copy the link and paste into Notepad, so you can pick the link apart. javascript:downloadfile(this,'P6T%20Deluxe','misc/sata/Marvell6121_SATA_V12068_V12069.zip', '1','29','1','1','Marvell6121_SATA_V12068_V12069.z ip','0') Take note of the portion of that, which is the file path specification. Glue that onto an alternate link, such as the following. ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/misc/...068_V12069.zip http://dlcdnas.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mis...068_V12069.zip http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mis...068_V12069.zip http://dlsvr.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/...068_V12069.zip The FTP site probably doesn't run too fast, but it is better than nothing. At least some of Asus transfers are done using Akamai, but Asus seems to have a number of alternatives they switch in from time to time. Some give the appearance of having Asus hostnames. Asus has seemed to suffer for long periods of time, from what appears to be denial of service (downloads requested by bots, instead of by customers trying to get their motherboards running). On the one hand, Akamai should have given virtually infinite bandwidth, but perhaps Asus installed Captcha to try to reduce the billing they're getting from Akamai. Otherwise, there seems to be no logic to when the Asus site is reduced to a crawl, versus when it is doing well. The server loading, doesn't seem to correspond to the yearly sales cycle. To me, it doesn't seem like the slowness of the Asus server, is caused purely by actual customers. There has to be more going on than that. Captcha is hardly a panacea, and I'm surprised Asus even bothered. Captcha has been beaten a number of times. And in some cases, humans are engaged to beat the system, in a distributed way. So if a company really expects to defend their servers from attack by using Captcha, it is a hopeless cat and mouse game. The images Asus is using right now, are not really a challenge as Captcha goes, so I don't know what they hope to stop. Anyone that owns a botnet, probably has access to Captcha busting technology to run on the bots. The scheme Asus is using right now, is about as weak as it gets. Paul Thanks, Paul. I always thought the slowness was just an ongoing feature of the Asus site. Even back in 1999, trying to download Win2K drivers for my P3BF was a frustrating experience, although downloading a BIOS update for my P6T earlier this year went fairly smoothly. |
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"Paul" wrote in message ...
.. Asus has seemed to suffer for long periods of time, from what appears to be denial of service (downloads requested by bots, instead of by customers trying to get their motherboards running). On the one hand, Akamai should have given virtually infinite bandwidth, but perhaps Asus installed Captcha to try to reduce the billing they're getting from Akamai. Otherwise, there seems to be no logic to when the Asus site is reduced to a crawl, versus when it is doing well. The server loading, doesn't seem to correspond to the yearly sales cycle. To me, it doesn't seem like the slowness of the Asus server, is caused purely by actual customers. There has to be more going on than that. Paul, one of Asus's FAE's is a good friend of mine, and he has always complained about his company's lack of funding for their servers. It's been an issue for 20+ years. It's not an ongoing DoS attack. To the OP, Asus runs their FTP and HTTP download servers on pitifully slow connections. The only option is to keep trying, and eventually you'll hit them when no one else is using them. |
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wrote in message ... "Paul" wrote in message ... .. Asus has seemed to suffer for long periods of time, from what appears to be denial of service (downloads requested by bots, instead of by customers trying to get their motherboards running). On the one hand, Akamai should have given virtually infinite bandwidth, but perhaps Asus installed Captcha to try to reduce the billing they're getting from Akamai. Otherwise, there seems to be no logic to when the Asus site is reduced to a crawl, versus when it is doing well. The server loading, doesn't seem to correspond to the yearly sales cycle. To me, it doesn't seem like the slowness of the Asus server, is caused purely by actual customers. There has to be more going on than that. Paul, one of Asus's FAE's is a good friend of mine, and he has always complained about his company's lack of funding for their servers. It's been an issue for 20+ years. It's not an ongoing DoS attack. To the OP, Asus runs their FTP and HTTP download servers on pitifully slow connections. The only option is to keep trying, and eventually you'll hit them when no one else is using them. I actually did that. I tried again yesterday and was able to download the entire driver set for my P6T Dlx at 1.0 to 1.2MB/s, sec, a speed I've never reached before with Asus downloads. It was just under the 10mb/s max for my internet service. |
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On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:42:38 -0700, wrote:
Paul, one of Asus's FAE's is a good friend of mine, and he has always complained about his company's lack of funding for their servers. It's been an issue for 20+ years. It's not an ongoing DoS attack. It IS an ongoing DoS attack, from the ASUS finance department. To the OP, Asus runs their FTP and HTTP download servers on pitifully slow connections. And they want to have "enthusiasts" among their customers? What a disconnect between marketing and finance (?). Ever try the EVGA site? Very fast. -AH |
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