Export templates fail to download from GitHub Releases at a certain point

[HumanAsFarAsIKnow]

Tested versions

Godot v4.4.1

System information

I'm on a 2020 Macbook Pro M1 running Sonoma 14.3 using Godot v4.4.1

Issue description

I tried downloading the export templates through the editor and it downloads about 60-70% of the file then stops and says "can't connect to the mirror." So I tried downloading the templates through godot's website and it got partway through and then failed. and the same thing happened downloading through github.

I've tried restarting my computer and router and have tried on multiple days with the same problems. a few people on reddit seem to be experiencing something similar, as well as a couple people on the godot forums from march of last year that never got solved

feel free to close this if this is not the right place to be reporting this problem

Steps to reproduce

trying to download Godot_v4.4.1-stable_export_templates.tpz from https://github.com/godotengine/godot/releases/tag/4.4.1-stable

Minimal reproduction project (MRP)

does not apply? i think?

[Calinou]

I've seen multiple reports of downloads always failing at a certain percentage (regardless of whether the download was performed in the editor or in a web browser). Unfortunately, these are difficult to diagnose and I haven't been able to reproduce this issue on my end.

Do you encounter issues on other large GitHub Releases downloads like the Windows/Linux installers for https://github.com/stuntrally/stuntrally3/releases/tag/3.2? These are larger than Godot's export templates, approaching GitHub Releases' 2 GB per file limit.

[HumanAsFarAsIKnow]

Yeah, trying to download the file you linked to failed after 400MB or so. My dad also tried to download the templates on his windows computer connected via ethernet to the same router as me and that failed too. I did just now download a 1.5GB game from steam and that worked perfectly(idk if that's relevant)

[ShikChen]

Saw the same problem on a different repo: wget dropped the connection right at 400 MB.

Connection closed at byte 419430400.

Got it working by rerunning the same wget on a VPS located in another country 🤔

[HumanAsFarAsIKnow]

okay, yeah. I got a free trial of a VPN, switched my location to Canada, and it just worked. Zero problems, just a nice easy download. I don't know enough to know why that worked, but thanks for the workaround!