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I am using an Alcatel A30 tablet; as indicated in a previous post, I have been using local wireless connection to push books from my computer to this device. This has worked reasonably well up to now, but at the moment there are a large number of books at both ends, and the communication times out consistently when connecting, while transferring the list of books.

The error log is as follows:

There was a timeout while communicating with the device in function: Device did not respond in reasonable time

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 90, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 513, in _books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\smart_device_app\driver.p y", line 50, in _synchronizer
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\smart_device_app\driver.p y", line 1284, in books
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\smart_device_app\driver.p y", line 50, in _synchronizer
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\smart_device_app\driver.p y", line 642, in _call_client
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\smart_device_app\driver.p y", line 674, in _receive_from_client
TimeoutError: There was a timeout while communicating with the device in function: Device did not respond in reasonable time

I have restarted both the computer and tablet; this doesn't seem to help. I have also connected to my 5 GHz local network instead of the 2.4, while ensuring that the tablet is the only device on that network. That has not helped either.

I have been considering whether connecting via Ethernet would help (it probably would). The computer itself is on Ethernet and not wireless. But I have not been able to find a USB-to-Ethernet adapter online that would be compatible with the Alcatel device. It would have to be Micro USB or else I would need a Micro to USB-C connector for most of the newer adapter types, and I am not sure if that would be feasible.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks !
Charles