Forum Uploads from CenturyLink Not Working Again

Musicvid wrote on 12/12/2021, 10:19 AM

You'd think Amazon or someone could figure this out; no other upload site in my experience with CenturyLink since 2016 has this problem...

Tracing route to vegascreativesoftware.info [52.58.251.166]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  www.routerlogin.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
  2    18 ms    18 ms    19 ms  hlrn-dsl-gw12.hlrn.qwest.net [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
  3    18 ms    27 ms    18 ms  63-225-124-89.hlrn.qwest.net [63.225.124.89]
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5    20 ms    20 ms    20 ms  den-b1-link.ip.twelve99.net [213.248.83.246]
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7    63 ms    64 ms    63 ms  nyk-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.118.150]
  8    63 ms    63 ms    63 ms  nyk-bb2-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.118.150]
  9   135 ms   135 ms   134 ms  ldn-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.113.21]
 10   135 ms   134 ms   135 ms  ldn-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.122.189]
 11   135 ms   135 ms   140 ms  a100-ic328653-ldn-b2.ip.twelve99-cust.net [80.239.195.89]
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 24     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 25     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 26     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 27     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 28     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 29     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 30     *        *        *     Request timed out.

Trace complete.

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Comments

Former user wrote on 12/13/2021, 10:05 PM

AWS security groups block ICMP (including ping, traceroute, etc.) by default.

If you are having trouble uploading media to the forums, it is most likely to happen if there's been a long delay since opening the message. I have noticed it can prevent adding pictures when editing an already completed saved message, but not always

You could write your message offline and paste it in, or when you begin a forum message immediately upload all media, then write and format your message around the media. You then should be able to take as long as you like. If it's not related to delays in adding media then it's likely a transient problem that has fixed it'self

Musicvid wrote on 12/13/2021, 11:20 PM

Todd, it's been going a lot longer than you've been here. Thanks for your take, though.

Former user wrote on 12/14/2021, 12:56 AM

My experience has only been in long delayed messages. I may start a reply, then google something, and fall down a google hole, complete message and I can choose media and it seems to upload, but it errors. When that happens select all copy, refresh click reply again, paste text and this time the upload will give the green indicator with success,

It's like they have a timeout for when media must be uploaded after clicking reply and message opening but randomly I've seen it not work for no decent reason