Mavericks stalls during large downloads

Hi I'm at my wits end over this, so hoping someone can help. I upgraded to Mavericks not long ago and I think that's when this problem started, but I'm not absolutely sure.
Anyway, the problem is that when I try to download anything bigger than a few MB, the download stalls part of the way through and never starts up again. This affects files downloaded through a browser, YouTube videos, email fetched via POP, even files copied in with scp (copying out with scp seems to work fine). Activity Monitor shows the data received rate suddenly dropping to more or less zero. I don't see anything relevant happening on the console while this happens.
I don't think this is an issue with our ISP, wireless connection, etc., because my wife's PC is not having this problem.
Based on suggestions I've seen in response to similar problems, I've tried removing Sophos and also, even though it makes no sense, implementing the ARP workaround mentioned in response #6 here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1689575
No luck with either of those.
I also tried rebooting in safe mode, but that makes no difference.
I'm using a Mid 2010 13-inch MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

I'm having this problem as well. While this is only a partial and temporary fix, if you're downloading from the web, I was just able to download an 869MB file from the web by doing this:
- Start the download in Firefox
- Open the Downloads window (Cmd + J)
- When the download stalls, right-click the DL and select "Pause"
- Let it sit for a few minutes, do something else
- Come back to Firefox, right-click the DL item and select Resume
I did this and was able to download the file completely. Going to try for a file now that's over 1GB!

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0xffffff80b133b190 : 0xffffff80002d1208
0xffffff80b133b2e0 : 0xffffff80002e3f4a
0xffffff80b133b2f0 : 0xffffff800048d7a1
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0xffffff80b133b440 : 0xffffff800032ca61
0xffffff80b133b510 : 0xffffff8000360d6f
0xffffff80b133b760 : 0xffffff8000367c04
0xffffff80b133b820 : 0xffffff8000369628
0xffffff80b133b980 : 0xffffff80003674a0
0xffffff80b133bb90 : 0xffffff800035cab9
0xffffff80b133bbf0 : 0xffffff800035e06d
0xffffff80b133bd70 : 0xffffff800035e1ce
0xffffff80b133bd90 : 0xffffff8000344370
0xffffff80b133bdc0 : 0xffffff800032fc17
0xffffff80b133be80 : 0xffffff800032bbb7
0xffffff80b133beb0 : 0xffffff800032e5fd
0xffffff80b133bf50 : 0xffffff800032e86b
0xffffff80b133bfa0 : 0xffffff80002c8527
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System
Provider
[ Name]
Bonjour Service
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100
[ Qualifiers]
0
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0x80000000000000
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[ SystemTime]
2012-06-12T11:41:38.000000000Z
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Application
Computer
BLACKPEARL
Security
EventData
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HT4623 When will mavericks be available to download?

When will Mavericks be available to download in Canada?

Yes, I _am_ able to log into your Apple account from my iMac _&_ I entered both my credit card number & the CVV number Correctly. And I _try_ to get Mavericks from the Mac App Store, itself.
Even though Mavericks is free after I enter data from my credit card, I see this:
[Large App Store icon here, aside] Your request is Temporarily unable to be processed. [I _love_ that passive voice.] Please try again later [ & later & Later & Later. :-( ]
I suppose that I need to use Mac OS X v10.8.5 even-longer, Happily-so! :-)

When i try to do a software update, it finishes and then says that the update cannot be saved because it has probably been corrupted during the download. This has happened a number of times and i do not know why, any help?

When i try to do a software update, it finishes and then says that the update cannot be saved because it has probably been corrupted during the download. This has happened a number of times and i do not know why, any help?

asifmanzoor wrote:
i have 10.7.2, this download is 10.7.5
Are you Downloading it from here > http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1582
asifmanzoor wrote:
yes, i am using wifi
1) Turn your Wi-Fi router OFF... wait 30 seconds... Turn it back ON.
OR...
Do not use Wi-Fi and connect Directly to your Internet via ethernet cable.

Firefox aborts LARGE downloads on completion with an 'unknown error' and the whole file has to be downloaded again - surely there must be a workfile somewhere?

Because I only have satellite internet available to me, I have to download YouTube files in my download window. Several times now, one or two of maybe five or six files, all being downloaded simultaneously *to the same directory*, will abort with an error message "<filename> could not be saved because an unknown error occurred. Try saving to a different location". However, you don't get a chance to save it to a different location, the whole damned file has to be downloaded again from scratch. This is actually with IceWeasel 17.0.10, a thinly-disgusided version of Firefox 17 LTS, running on 64-bit Debian 7.1 multihome.
I realise this may be a plugin problem rather than a Firefox problem, I'm not sure of the exact relationship between the two, but I'm using TubeEnhancer 2.6 to do the downloads.
Whatever the 'unknown error' might be (and it's not a permissions problem, other videos being downloaded at the same time will save correctly to the same directory!) it seems beyond belief that it's not possible to give the user a chance to save the file somewhere else, as the error message suggests. It's so frustrsting to have to go through the whole download process again. Surely Firefox is storing a copy of the file on the hard drive as it downloads, is there really no way that this can at least be recovered when the error occurs, even if it's not possible for some reason to give the user a second chance to pick a directory and filename?

OK, so I tried disabling the other addons and (I'm sure this is coincidental!) the problem actually got WORSE, not better, i.e. more aborted downloads.
This is a long-standing problem with both Firefox and Thunderbird, both programs will happily tell you *during* the download process that they've downloaded X MB of Y MB, but if the download aborts, then there's no indication that it's done so on the dowload page. All that is needed is to retain that expected download size figure when the download has terminated, so that you can easily see whether unattended downloads completed or not.
Yes, I suppose those of us who have to use satellite internet services are in the minority, but the only hours when I can download anything are between 0200 and 0700 my time, and I do like to get SOME sleep at nights!

My Apple TV stalled during an update and now just shows an image of it being plugged into a USB. It won't complete the update and does nothing when I plug it into my Mac via USB.

2 Apple TVs. The first won't reboot, it stalled during an update and now shows a picture of a UBS plug. Ive tried to plug into my computer, nothing happens. At a standtill.
The second Apple TV works but only if I send something via Airplay. The remote no longer has any affect. The light on the front of the Apple TV blinks when I push a buttom on the remote but nothing happens.
Any Ideas? I am starting to think I need to replace them. Thanks.

Ok, with itunes open on the pc, plug one end of the usb cord into the computer, but not connected to the ipad.
now, press the power button on the ipad until it turns off.
Then, press and hold the home button on the ipad at the same you plug the usb cord into the ipad. DON'T LET GO OF THE HOME BUTTON.
Keep holding the home button until you see the recovery mode message pop on the itunes window.
When that happens, you should now be able to restore.

Mavericks stalls during large downloads

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