the packages were here in under 1 hr. if i recall forget IE use fire fox and do them 1 at a time

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.

Adji


Downloaded all the files in about half an hour.

Blimey! That was good. Are you on cable? I'm on ADSL broadband with no chance of cable being installed in my area. I pay my provider for 2mb but I sometimes get better than that, sometimes worse. But yeah, I still got all of my downloads okay.

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...

synkrotron

Adji


Downloaded all the files in about half an hour.

Blimey! That was good. Are you on cable? I'm on ADSL broadband with no chance of cable being installed in my area. I pay my provider for 2mb but I sometimes get better than that, sometimes worse. But yeah, I still got all of my downloads okay.

I'm on top speed Virgin Fibre Optic thing. Supposed to be 120meg but more like 20 haha. Its pretty fast though.
Its actually taking me much longer to install than download haha.

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

lanstrad


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

Just sent you a PM

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.

pwal


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

guess it might. 


My internet connection did pretty good considering I'm at the butt end of the line up here...

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!