Most inneficient download ever seen!

Lanstrad : who is your internet provider : Download Speed: 15565 kbps (1945.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 6682 kbps (835.3 KB/sec transfer rate) bell fib 15/7

The ISP is not in question here: i downloaded a full 8gb Adobe suite last week and it was done first shot (overnight) with nothing corrupted. We're in 2012 man, it's unacceptable that a second version be shipped like this

lanstrad :last time who is your ip provider do a speed test here NY server.... www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

No way to do it overnight, as i see the only way will be to do one pack at a time.. (i tried both I.E., Safari, Fire****s)

I have to agree with Bristol Jonesy. I'm in the UK too and the downloads worked fine and first time. Downloaded all the files in about half an hour.

daveny5


Use CHROME!

Or if you must use Internet Explorer, get the Free Download Manager. I downloaded the whole thing in about 5 hours and that was with a teleconference going over VoIP at the same time. 

+1!


Using Free Download Manager makes it extremely easy to queue everything up and walk away - and you can even set it to shut down your computer automatically.


It's also a great tool to use to grab local copies of some of the online training videos...

it may be to do with how the amazon cloud distributes data (iirc, the cake stuff is hosted that way?)

I got 2 network errors over the course of downloading, but still managed to get it all downloaded over the course of 3 hours yesterday.  

The difference between the Adobe download the OP references and this download is that Adobe uses a download manager that can resume downloads if there's a network hiccup whereas Cakewalk expects 2-3GB files to download uninterrupted.  I got to 1.9GB on 2 different files before they crapped out last night, which was a waste.  Adding a download manager to the website would resolve it.

I used Chrome and free download manager and had zero problems. I have Xfinity  internet svc with 40mbs download speed. No problems at all. I followed install directions and opened the first .exe of each file and then started the install. Easiest install yet!

That's not Cake's fault, le internette is just chock-a-block with strange ISP traffic control. I'm not saying you're getting throttled (though you may be), but everyone's relationship with their connection is pretty unique (oddly). 

I'm getting good-but-not-great speeds on mine, but another file-distribution service from a different project keeps failing out. When Cake first switched to whomever this current provider is I had a terrible time (like you!) but when I upgraded from WinXP to Win7 it totally improved.

But hey maybe it's balanced out somehow, are your pr0n downloads faster? 

I took the advice of others and bellied up to Free Download Manager. Worked smoothly. Great tool to have.

Definitely get FreeDownloadManager.  I don't know how...but it sped up my download by a bunch.  I downloaded all four parts while tethering my cell phone to my laptop and got them all within an hour using Chrome... give or take few minutes.

I used Firefox, and although I probably should have started one at a time, I just fired all 4 parts at once and they all were done in a few hours - no glitches - no hang ups. Shaw is my IPS, and the lowest speed was around 167kbs & fluctuated between that & the highest speed up to around 300kbs. Bandwidth can have something to do with it as well.

To those of you having issues:  Have you read the instructions/suggestions others have posted on downloading?   I dl'ed on the first day X2 became available to the public - surely the heaviest download period - and experienced no problems whatsoever.
 
I have a slow to mid- speed DSL connection, and used Firefox with the free DownThemAll add-in to download the whole lot overnight.  The next morning, I checked that all the files were there, then I rebooted (for a nice clean system), disconnected internet connection, temporarily disabled antivirus, and ran the executables.  All extracted and installed perfectly.
 
Seriously, the process was about as easy as it could be.  If you're having problems and didn't do everything I mentioned above, it's hardly CW's fault.