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24 Oct 2009 | #1 |
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Digital River Download painfully slow!
I purchased the student offer version of Windows 7 yesterday top up grade from XP, as for £30 I thought I couldn't go wrong.
So there I was this morning thinking I could set a side a few hours to get it all up and running but 11 hours later i still dont even have all of the first .box file downloaded! I live off campus (in the UK), but still have a cable broadband connection and can usually expect file download speeds of 300-800kb/s as reported by the windows download window. Now I know that there is probably high demand on Digital River's servers at the moment, but still... My download has only managed 40-50kb/s on average with a couple of short peaks to 70-90kb/s. At this rate it'll be tomorrow evening before I get to a point where I can install. Anyone else having this problem, or ideas of how to speed things up? I ask as i can't find anywhere else which mentions this problem, only people talking about creating .iso files as if their download flew by and now they're installing. |
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24 Oct 2009 | #2 |
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Please see this For those who purchased Windows 7 from Digital River
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24 Oct 2009 | #3 |
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Thanks Jacee. I think I'll go for the option of making the .iso file and a dvd. But no one seems to mention the slow download speeds on there?
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24 Oct 2009 | #4 |
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Busy server, I would suspect
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Busy server + impatient user =
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