MSDN is slooooooooooow

Since I never got a "welcome e-mail" from MSDN, I began relentlessly pinging the form for a subscriber number lookup on Sunday. Finally, this morning, it worked and I got my number. I started downloading Visual Studio. Twelve hours ago. Still only two-thirds the way there. Getting 35k/second.

That's pathetic. How does a company the size of Microsoft offer a very high-end and premium download service and not have the bandwidth to support it. I keep seeing people in various forums and blogs post excuses, but there is no excuse. People are paying big money for this stuff.

What a disappointment.

11 Comments

  • I've been downloading at around 900k/sec today, with no problems. It might be your connection, not MSDN.

  • I doubt that very much, since I can hit 300k+ on my own server, as well as another 300k in Torrent downloads at the same time. (And no, I'm not doing both simultaneously.)

  • Jeff,



    I gotta say, mine came down extremely fast. Took about a little over an hour for the VS 2005 Pro image.

  • I tend to get 100k

  • Try stopping the download and restart.

    Don't ask me why but that fixed it for me.



    Reminds me of the old days getting a slow modem when dialing to an ISP :)

  • I regularly pull 350K from MSDN.

  • This time around I didn't have a problem, 300KB/sec on average. In the previous years it was slow at times. What helped was stopping and resuming hte download, making the downloadtool to switch servers, which can help.

  • I also think the problem is your connection. My downloads are in the 200-300 KB/sec range over my cable modem.



    BTW, I get frustrated to, so I know how you feel. I would check some of the other suggestions on this. :-)



    Wally

  • Thanks Roy...



    http://weblogs.asp.net/jamauss/archive/2005/06/07/410690.aspx

  • First day I tried downloading and got great speeds 700KB/sec + Now everything seems to be throttled. Starts fast and then slows to 10 or 20 KB/sec. Starting and stopping helps but takes many start/stops to complete a 1.5GB download. Very annoying. This is not my connection as I sit on a DS3. Tried adding the server to my host file with no results. Really seams like a throttle if pausing and resuming bursts my speed.


  • I am getting 1034Kn downloads right now. I had the same problem until I changed my DNS...

    TRY THIS:

    http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/11/20/speed-up-and-download-faster-from-microsoft-msdn-downloads/

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