Flaky connections like Starlink crashes hf xet large downloads

Hugging Face's huggingface_hub tool crashes on large file downloads over flaky networks like Starlink, wiping out multi-gigabyte caches and preventing resume, according to a user report. The crash occurred while downloading the Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF model, with a 84.8GB file stalled at 6.53GB after 2 hours, and the user says disabling Xet and concurrency prevents downloads over 32GB. The issue affects users on Windows with Python 3.14 and the huggingface_hub CLI, and the user is requesting an urgent fix.

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