Unable to download anything from Download Station no matter what I do

Before I retired, we attended a meeting where they told us that the entirety of possible 8-character passwords was now in the hackers' dictionary, and we were all required to change all our passwords to a minimum of 12 characters. I actually felt they should have made it 16, but that was three years ago now. Today's computers are capable of some fairly rapid tries, and when quantum computers start to come online, watch out.
With AI, that's only going to be worse because an AI-driven process, and work far faster on today's hardware making that quantum computer even faster when they come online. Many places are now going for passphrases now. Imagine typing in a sentence as a single word in order to log in and also include symbols and numbers.
 
There is now a push to adopt "Passkeys" that are hardware dependent - they are physically linked, via encryption, to your computer or mobile phone.

I am using one, as a trial, for my Google account accessed from my main desktop computer. I verified my identity just once when I created the Google passkey and, once I have logged into my computer, I can access Gmail and other Google services without having to log in to Google as well. If I access those services from a different device I have to log into Google as per normal. Once (if) I feel comfortable with using passkeys I will generate separate passkeys for my other devices as well.

For someone to access your passkey protected account, such as Google, they would need physical access to your hardware device and your personal login for that device. A remote hacker cannot access your Google account from their computer in Russia, Nth Korea, China,, or where-ever.
 
There is now a push to adopt "Passkeys" that are hardware dependent - they are physically linked, via encryption, to your computer or mobile phone.

I am using one, as a trial, for my Google account accessed from my main desktop computer. I verified my identity just once when I created the Google passkey and, once I have logged into my computer, I can access Gmail and other Google services without having to log in to Google as well. If I access those services from a different device I have to log into Google as per normal. Once (if) I feel comfortable with using passkeys I will generate separate passkeys for my other devices as well.

For someone to access your passkey protected account, such as Google, they would need physical access to your hardware device and your personal login for that device. A remote hacker cannot access your Google account from their computer in Russia, Nth Korea, China,, or where-ever.
That works for now until someone figures out how to emulate the hardware where the passkey was generated.
In a way this reminds me of the old key-fob security device that generated a hex or octal number code that the user had to enter into their login screen within a specific amount of time. If the user waited too long, a new code would be generated and the system would resend the login all over again.
 
Hello,

Same problem for me. I have been using Content Manager ever since it appeared in TS2006, and now downloading is impossible in any of those versions of Trainz.
I tried a free VPN, and it made CM work again,
But what is this? Should I buy a VPN subscription to get CM working again? What has changed? I have been using TRS22 build 126280 for quite some time without downloading problems. I have not changed my computer hardware.

Paul
 
Should I buy a VPN subscription to get CM working again? What has changed?
I am not aware of anything changing at the N3V (i.e. Amazon) server end. I have had no problems downloading from the DLS with and without a VPN. I just tested it to confirm. But some VPNs are more "DLS friendly" than others.

You should not need a subscription to anything (apart from your Internet Service Provider) to download from the DLS using CM.

One obvious thing to check is your AV software. Have you added TRSxx.exe (where the "xx" is the number of your current version - "19" for TRS19, "22" for TRS22 and Trainz Plus) to the AV real-time scan exclusion list? Some AV software will block CM while the AV scans everything that CM opens or attempts to download.
 
Thanks pware for reacting.
All these exceptions are listed in my AV software. It is Bitdefender by the way.
In fact I have not added anything since a long time, because it was always working well and the problem just arose just some weeks ago without me changing anything there. I have not applied patches since the release of 126280.
I have also tried disabling the firewall, the AV checks, etc, but that did not help.

Regards
Paul
 
Thanks pware for reacting.
All these exceptions are listed in my AV software. It is Bitdefender by the way.
In fact I have not added anything since a long time, because it was always working well and the problem just arose just some weeks ago without me changing anything there. I have not applied patches since the release of 126280.
I have also tried disabling the firewall, the AV checks, etc, but that did not help.

Regards
Paul

T-Mobile Home Internet blocks me from downloading on CM, so I either use my trusty VPN or switch over to my old Verizon 4G jetpack. Content Store is fine. No big deal. My Firewall and AV are both enabled and doing what they are supposed to again.
 
Hello sultan1966,

With me Content Store is fine too. Even the CM is nicely updated everyday, so the connection is there.
What is the difference between downloading through CM and downloading from the Content Store (via the Welcome Screen)?

Paul
 
Had the same problem time ago. I am a draconian, so I went to extremes to solve the problem:
Set a new/test installation in your laptop.
Take it to the nearest Starbucks or any other public WiFi place.
Try to download anything there.

If you could, the problem is that your ISP is blocking the connection. Change ISP, as I did. Now I can download anything from DLS.
 
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