# Flaky connections like Starlink crashes hf xet large downloads

> Source: <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/flaky-connections-like-starlink-crashes-hf-xet-large-downloads/178759#post_1>
> Published: 2026-08-17 13:23:52+00:00

huggingface_hub sometimes crashes on big files when on networks like Starlink … is there a work-around ? … GPT says to disable Xet, concurrency, etc … but this prevents big file downloads >32GB … see crash error message below … also, mid-download CACHE of many many GBs gets WIPED-OUT and cannot resume … please fix ASAP …

(uvpvenv) MINGW64

$ hf download ggml-org/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF --repo-type=model --local-dir ./models–ggml-org–Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF/

Fetching 3 files: 67%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ | 2/3 [2:05:18<1:02:39, 3759.30s/it]

Traceback (most recent call last):.): 8%|████████▏ | 6.53GB / 84.8GB, 32.1MB/s

File “”, line 203, in _run_module_as_main | 0/3 [00:00<?, ?it/s]

File “”, line 88, in run_code

File “C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Scripts\hf.exe_main.py”, line 10, in

sys.exit(main())

```
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\cli\hf.py", line 133, in main
app()
~~~^^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1569, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1490, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\cli_cli_utils.py", line 131, in invoke
return super().invoke(ctx)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1970, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 1353, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\click\core.py", line 907, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\cli_framework.py", line 365, in handler
return func(**call_kwargs)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\cli\download.py", line 225, in download
_print_result(run_download())
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\cli\download.py", line 187, in run_download
return snapshot_download(
repo_id=repo_id,
...<10 lines>...
dry_run=dry_run,
)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\utils_validators.py", line 88, in _inner_fn
return fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub_snapshot_download.py", line 522, in snapshot_download
hf_thread_map(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
_inner_hf_hub_download,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<3 lines>...
tqdm_class=tqdm_class,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\utils\tqdm.py", line 441, in hf_thread_map
results[future_to_index[future]] = future.result()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.14-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\concurrent\futures_base.py", line 447, in result
return self.__get_result()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.14-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\concurrent\futures_base.py", line 396, in __get_result
raise self._exception
File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.14-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 86, in run
result = ctx.run(self.task)
File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\uv\python\cpython-3.14-windows-x86_64-none\Lib\concurrent\futures\thread.py", line 73, in run
return fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub_snapshot_download.py", line 502, in _inner_hf_hub_download
hf_hub_download( # type: ignore
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
repo_id,
^^^^^^^^
...<14 lines>...
dry_run=dry_run,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\utils_validators.py", line 88, in _inner_fn
return fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\file_download.py", line 998, in hf_hub_download
return _hf_hub_download_to_local_dir(
# Destination
...<16 lines>...
dry_run=dry_run,
)
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\file_download.py", line 1457, in _hf_hub_download_to_local_dir
_download_to_tmp_and_move(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
incomplete_path=paths.incomplete_path(etag),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<8 lines>...
tqdm_class=tqdm_class,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\file_download.py", line 1960, in _download_to_tmp_and_move
xet_get(
~~~~~~~^
incomplete_path=tmp_path,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<4 lines>...
tqdm_class=tqdm_class,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "C:\msys64\home\utils\uvpvenv\Lib\site-packages\huggingface_hub\file_download.py", line 565, in xet_get
with session.new_file_download_group(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
token_refresh_url=xet_file_data.refresh_route,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<2 lines>...
progress_callback=progress.update_progress,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
) as group:
^
RuntimeError: Task error: File reconstruction error: CAS Client Error: Format error: I/O error: error decoding response body
```