# Relatively high download fail rate?

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/relatively-high-download-fail-rate/18000>\
**Category:** Node Operators\
**Created:** [April 3, 2022, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/relatively-high-download-fail-rate/18000 "2022-04-03T11:06:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 4, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/relatively-high-download-fail-rate/18000/17 "2022-04-04T17:55:03Z")

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> [@Gasp0de](#):
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> Just grep “download failed”?

Yes.

Still the advise: use a [monitoring tool and/or alerting script](https://forum.storj.io/t/howto-storage-node-health-check-discord-email-alerting-script/16461).

Great to hear, that it was temporary.

> [@CutieePie](#):
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> out of interest, if you ping 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 do you still get packet loss ?

You could additionally set your DNS manually to one of those IPs. This might speed up US lookups, too. Give it a try.

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