Have been using Sentinel with no issues. With two different laptops I get the Operation time out error and cannot update database or software? Anyone know the fix?
Sentinel: Time out error
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Did this ever work? What changed since it worked?
Initial guess would be your ISP is blocking FTP which Sentinel uses to retrieve database and firmware updates.
Initial guess would be your ISP is blocking FTP which Sentinel uses to retrieve database and firmware updates.
Yes. Worked with no issues. Now it cannot connect to server without time out. How do you get the ISP to not block it ?
Get a different ISP
I doubt you'll have any success in requesting this of your ISP. Did you change provider recently? Who is your provider?Try using your smart phone as a hot-spot and connect from your PC to hot-spot, then try Sentinel while using this.
ISP is Spectrum cable. Has worked previously. Within past few weeks this occurred
Then I would suspect your anti-virus software. I don't think I've heard of anyone complaining about Spectrum having this issue.
If one used a VPN, I imagine your ISP wouldn't have a clue about what to block, because they should have no idea that you're using FTP. There are many different VPN's like The best online VPN service for speed that have a free trial period. You have nothing to lose by checking it out.
That is a possibility too, pausing it should be a quick way of verifying if that's the culprit.
Thanks for the info. I’ll wait until the system change in what I’m listening to happens in May, and then go the vpn route.
If it was me I'd figure it out now so you aren't in a panic in May trying to get it working...but that's just me.
