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Want to speed up your MSDN Downloads?

If you're an MSDN subscriber and have ever tried to download a huge set of files, I'm sure you know how long it can take when you're only getting about 25kbps speed from Microsoft's MSDN Subscriber Downloads. The problem is, you may be hitting a non-US mirror site. So, here's a way to speed things up a bit.

In the hosts file on the machine doing the downloading (%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) add an entry for the Microsoft server:
207.46.252.185      global.ds.microsoft.com

Then, in Internet Explorer, add https://global.ds.microsoft.com in the list of trusted sites under Tools > Internet Options > Security > Trusted Sites. Also, under the privacy tab click the 'Sites' button and enter https://global.ds.microsoft.com so that microsoft.com is a trusted domain.

We did this at work and saw a speed increase from about 25kbps to ~150kbps.

On an un-related note - have a look at the Project FAZR blogs - you can read about the whole idea of a democratic ISV brain-trust on Ryan Whitaker's blog.

Posted: Jun 07 2005, 11:25 AM by jamauss | with 24 comment(s)
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Comments

Brendan G said:

Would this same thing apply in Australia as well? And if so, any ideas on the IP's and addresses that would work best?

Cheers,
Brendan
# June 8, 2005 1:32 AM

Jason Mauss said:

Brendan - I'm not sure about Austrailia. You should be able to contact your local MSDN or Partner rep at Microsoft and they should be able to tell you if there is a local mirror in AUS.
# June 8, 2005 1:14 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 9, 2005 6:29 PM

Duncan said:

Well this certainly works for me - 50-60K to 110-120K

Duncan.
# June 14, 2005 4:30 PM

Dante said:

Worked wonders for me - from 100K to 380K.
# June 22, 2005 9:53 AM

Blog by Bob said:

 

# July 29, 2006 9:46 PM

Software/Technology Discussion said:

Fed up with waiting 2 hours to download that CD image from your MSDN subscription, at home because you...

# August 12, 2006 6:32 PM

PhatBoyG.com » Blog Archive » MSDN Download Speed Improvement said:

PingBack from http://phatboyg.com/2006/12/04/msdn-download-speed-improvement/

# December 4, 2006 9:54 AM

hoohee.com - MSDN subscription slow transfer said:

PingBack from http://www.hoohee.com/PermaLink,guid,89ce5d1a-3b6a-443a-a92a-265516431fe4.aspx

# May 3, 2007 3:07 AM

Digi said:

Wow!

Thanks man!

I'm in Norway, In 3 years I did only get 50-60Kbs, after this change i do now get 620kbs!!!! a 10x increase!!

I have reported the speed issue here in Europe to MSDN several times, but I have not notest any improvement the last 2-3 years.

If not MSDN do something soon about this speed issue will this be my last year as subscripter!!

Anyway, again thanks for the tip, it saved my day!

/Digi

# May 29, 2007 6:58 PM

Workhorse said:

I'm getting about 450 kbps with this configuration, which is about a 10-fold increase over my old speed. Thanks much!

# September 7, 2007 7:12 PM

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# November 12, 2008 11:04 PM

Rob said:

Any chance the IP has changed since this original post? These changes no longer seem to help.

# January 11, 2009 12:22 PM

Mathias said:

Hi,

I still recieve only with 20-30K. Perhaps Ron's idea is correct?

# January 11, 2009 12:34 PM

Chris said:

Yes me too.  I think they have changed the ip.  Cause I'm getting about 35KB and I have a DS3 here at my tips(in a datacenter)

# January 12, 2009 9:13 PM

IT in KC said:

I think the thread is right. I did an nslookup for global.ds.microsoft.com and I got 207.46.51.39 as the IP.

# April 11, 2009 11:22 PM

mike johnson said:

Is this still active? I can't seem to get above 350k/s from Toronto? for CD's this is fine, but with most things being some sort of DVD image of 2GB 2.5hrs+ is not cool. Before anyone says its my connection, I pulled down the entire season of Fringe in HD (over 30GB) at a sustained 2200k/s from iTunes which also uses akamai for delivery...

# September 4, 2009 2:48 PM

Thomas said:

Seems like they changed the domain to fp-db.ds.microsoft.com. Try the website http://just-ping.com to find the different ip-addresses with is assigned to this domain.

# November 24, 2009 12:47 PM

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# January 31, 2011 1:08 PM

OST into Outlook PST said:

These days it is a necessity to import an OST into Outlook PST files from Microsoft® Exchange to Outlook mail client .pst files. Microsoft offers no such utility or any such feature that can import OST files into PST files and allow Outlook users to use data in .pst file format of Outlook. In case, you have OST data with items like emails, contacts, calendars, journals, to do list, drafts etc and need to be imported to PST, you are required to copy entire data in PST file. Problematic case is when OST files are orphaned and need to be imported to PST files, the take help of some outside utility.

OST Files: OST files are local copy of emails when Outlook is configured to use MAPI account. OST files are exact copy of mailboxes present in MS Exchange Server. In various cases, Outlook unable to use OST files, thus to import OST file data, into usable form, preferably convert in PST file format of Outlook.

OST files turn orphaned thus become no longer in use directly.

• Encrypted OST Data: MS Exchange Server deals with Offline Storage file or OST file by Server authentication, that user has to pass to use data in OST files. Sometimes, administrator, encrypts OST files, to save access from undesirable users, to save data from accessed from unwanted users. Until this password is intact, it is not possible to use OST file.

• Profile Deletion: In case your original profile is deleted or modified to such an extent that you are unable to use OST data, then serious issue might raise in organization, so it is better to import an OST into Outlook PST, to use OST data in PST file format that can be used normally.

• Mailbox Deletion: Suppose an Exchange administrator deleted mailboxes by mistake or some of the data from mailboxes, resultantly, end users of these mailboxes, you find OST files in absolutely not in a state to work with. This means, OST file is orphaned.

<a href="www.convert-sttopst.org/">Import an OST into Outlook</a> PST: In the cases and situations mentioned above, the only solution is to use OST data in PST file format of MS Outlook. Once you transfer entire OST data into PST, you can use OST data again.

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