# Read Timeout when trying to load a moderately large project over slightly slow internet connection **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [December 20, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-timeout-when-trying-to-load-a-moderately-large-project-over-slightly-slow-internet-connection/54310 "2021-12-20T15:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![md.szyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/md.szyman/32/9240_2.png) [@md.szyman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/md.szyman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-timeout-when-trying-to-load-a-moderately-large-project-over-slightly-slow-internet-connection/54310/1 "2021-12-20T15:36:41Z")
I’m trying to load a decently sized project in the designer (20MB? That’s approximately what the “Loading Project” dialog shows as a maximum when it occasionally succeeds) over a ~30Mbps home internet connection (although the actual speed is anyone’s guess, as is usually the case). The “Loading Project” dialog shows an approximate maximum of 500kb/s as its download speed. After it gets ~4MB in, loading the project fails with a Read Timeout error: ```auto com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayException: Read timed out at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.newGatewayException(GatewayInterface.java:351) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.getResponse(GatewayInterface.java:543) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.sendMessage(GatewayInterface.java:283) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.sendMessage(GatewayInterface.java:278) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.invoke(GatewayInterface.java:945) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.gateway.DTGatewayInterface.loadProject(DTGatewayInterface.java:358) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.designer.project.ProjectOpenTask.run(ProjectOpenTask.java:26) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.util.gui.ProgressDialog$TaskRunner.run(ProgressDialog.java:364) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out at java.base/java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method) at java.base/java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.base/sun.net.www.http.ChunkedInputStream.fastRead(Unknown Source) at java.base/sun.net.www.http.ChunkedInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.base/sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$HttpInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.base/java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface$ThroughputMeasuringInputStream.read(GatewayInterface.java:582) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager$RewindableInputStream.read(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.UTF8Reader.read(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipChar(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.client.gateway_interface.GatewayInterface.getResponse(GatewayInterface.java:485) ... 7 more Ignition v8.1.12 (b2021111810) Java: Azul Systems, Inc. 11.0.11 ``` It occasionally does succeed, but most of the time I get this error. I suspect it has something to do with the designer not properly loading projects over slower internet connections. ---
**Author:** ![andrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@andrews](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrews)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-timeout-when-trying-to-load-a-moderately-large-project-over-slightly-slow-internet-connection/54310/2 "2021-12-20T18:10:28Z")
Did you verify the speed the speed with something like [[https://www.speedtest.net/](https://www.speedtest.net/)] ---
**Author:** ![md.szyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/md.szyman/32/9240_2.png) [@md.szyman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/md.szyman)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-timeout-when-trying-to-load-a-moderately-large-project-over-slightly-slow-internet-connection/54310/3 "2022-01-26T14:13:11Z")
This issue is persisting and occurs for coworkers of mine who have better internet. There are two projects on this gateway, one of which is a smaller inheritable project which opens no problem. The larger ~22MB project consistently fails to open with the read timeout error at pretty much exactly 1MB into the download. EDIT: I’ve also tried tethering to my phone instead of using my home wifi and the issue persists, so it’s not my specific internet connection. ---
**Author:** ![md.szyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/md.szyman/32/9240_2.png) [@md.szyman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/md.szyman)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/read-timeout-when-trying-to-load-a-moderately-large-project-over-slightly-slow-internet-connection/54310/4 "2022-01-26T14:13:46Z")
The exact speed of my internet connection does not seem to be relevant to the issue as it happens for coworkers of mine as well as when I tether to my phone.