download manager

[David Sherman]

Is this working for anyone?

It has crapped out 4 times for me.

thanks

 

[Jeff]

Its getting hit too hard-LOL

 

[dotcom]

Well what did you expect?!
There are hundred of thousands of people hitting there servers right now!
JUST KEEP TRYING!
dotcom

 

[Tom Ziegmann]

I thought akamai was handling the bandwidth? Guess not!

 

[dotcom]

Well it started out fine but it's CRAP NOW!
I'm down to 33KB AND I HAVE FIBER!
It's crapped out on me no less than 20 times.
This thing is gonna be in my mailbox before I get the download!
dotcom

 

[Tom Ziegmann]

Darn! thought id be able to save 6 bucks

Well it started out fine but it's CRAP NOW!
I'm down to 33KB AND I HAVE FIBER!
It's crapped out on me no less than 20 times.
This thing is gonna be in my mailbox before I get the download!
dotcom

 

[Guest]

Yeah, I had it mailed and getting the download. 2-4 weeks in the mail, 423
hours left to download. It did go up into the 200s kb/sec for a minute or
two. Getting 66kb/sec, 13 hours now. This makes me sad.

 

[dotcom]

Maybe it's a conspiracy! <s>
dotcom

Darn! thought id be able to save 6 bucks

 

[Tom Ziegmann]

has anyone tried w/out the download manager

Yeah, I had it mailed and getting the download. 2-4 weeks in the mail,
423 hours left to download. It did go up into the 200s kb/sec for a
minute or two. Getting 66kb/sec, 13 hours now. This makes me sad.

 

[Guest]

If you try it without the DM, it will go up to about 40 megs and stop. Try
getting a 3rd party DM, its working for me, I'm at about 120 megs right now.
LOL

 

[Travis King]

Yeah, I've tried both. With Firefox, it gets a percent or two, then it
stops and then it says it's done after only a percent or two, so either way,
you're not going to get good luck right now. The most I've been able to do
right now is 2% before having an issue. I hope it's more stable tomorrow.

 

[Guest]

Save $6? No, you have to pay $4 for shipping and $0.40 in taxes, so thats
$10.40 I believe

 

[Guest]

It has crapped out at 512kb for me when using Firefox. Using IE is no better.
I am either going to have to resort to a torrent of this or something because
this is ridiculous. Telling me to check my connection, pfft. MS needs to
rethink this Akamai deal and just use a modified Bit Torrent client, ffs.

 

[Guest]

With 3rd party DM, it does 4 or 5 megs, stops, says "Server Error" and you
can just press resume and it will continue, stop, and continue this process.
So basically you have to be right beside the comp all the time. Wont work if
you try to put it for download at night and go to sleep. Trust me.

 

[dotcom]

yes, they add tax and shipping but still maybe that's a better way to go.
Akami is TRASH!
dotcom

 

[Roy Coorne]

With 3rd party DM, it does 4 or 5 megs, stops, says "Server Error" and you
can just press resume and it will continue, stop, and continue this process.
So basically you have to be right beside the comp all the time. Wont work if
you try to put it for download at night and go to sleep. Trust me.

That's no difference to the 'behavior' of the download manager offered
by Microsoft.

Roy