Chrome certainly helped, not perfect though. After 3 days Instead of 4..), guess I *should* have everything... Now time to launch this install.

Thanks everyone.

Rob

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? 

The 300 minutes is only for accessing the link to the download not the time in which you have to download the actual files. It's purely a security measure so the links don't stay active forever.

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

Downloaded it all except Dim Pro but including the SWA video last night without problems. I use Firefox with Down Them All.

My first attempt did fail because my wireless router locked up. This time I used a wired connection.

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.

Having iOS6 launched at around the same time certainly doesn't help. Traffic this week is horrific. I believe its ISP related. My wife's iPad 2 can't finish download iOS6 either. Really slllloooooowwwwwww.....

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.

I knew there would be issues when SONAR X2 was released to the general public, so that is why I pre-ordered and downloaded it a day early. Unfortunately, you have to deal with the Amazon cloud services and share the bandwidth with everyone else.

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.