I am thinking this weekend the servers will be hammered, so maybe waiting a few days or a week might be better...

I'd be interested to find out as well actually. The files are served up by Amazon Cloudfront some they should hit a different pipeline depending on your location in the world.

Mine took 2 hours for all 4 files... (I was on X2 so didnt bother with Loops and Dimension)
 
Addictive drums took an hour.
 
I'm on a 7mb pipe and I think my sonar DL's were averaging at about 200kbps

Ryan, I know LOTS of products are hosted by AWS, and they have a hefty server bank.
I know having a download manager is pretty much mandatory (which FF has built  in ).
Hopefully some users will chime in ...

Not done yet but it looks like it is gonna be about 2 hours for all 4 parts of the main installer to download. Average speed per file at this moment is 200kbs. 

On a DSL connection X3 took only a few hours but I didn't have to D/L the loops, one shots or DP. 

I didn't actually track it but some where around 30 minutes to an hour for the 4 main Sonar files.  I didn't need the loops, DMPro etc, already had them.
 
Dan

musicman100
Ryan, I know LOTS of products are hosted by AWS, and they have a hefty server bank.
I know having a download manager is pretty much mandatory (which FF has built  in ).
Hopefully some users will chime in ...

Yeah. Last year I believe we were using S3 at the time of the X2 launch which wasn't as reliable in different areas of the world. This is ultimately what prompted us to start providing MD5 hash info for the files (since it can help to determine if a file was corrupted during the download process). If anyone does need to perform this check, I've posted all of this info here: http://www.cakewalk.com/x3install
 
I don't know if it's just me, but I find that not looking at it makes it go faster :)

About 20 min. for each of the X3 parts.

I started the download around 1:15pm EST. The download of all 4 parts took about an hour, maybe less. I did not wait at the computer while it was downloading.