You say that 50,000 people have managed to download VS2005. I have been
trying for 3 days, but only managed about 150 MB. I keep getting ( after
about 5-10 minutes) :
Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Beta 2 (English), An internal error occurred -
cannot open file on server
then it stops downloading.
Please go to the Subscriber Downloads site and use the Contact Us form to
submit this as an issue - the download platform is working; I can download
at 4000 Kb/sec (from Redmond). There may be some sort of regional
connectivity issue, however, that they can help with.

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> You say that 50,000 people have managed to download VS2005. I have been
> trying for 3 days, but only managed about 150 MB. I keep getting ( after
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james - 21 Apr 2005 22:39 GMT
> Please go to the Subscriber Downloads site and use the Contact Us form to submit this as an issue - the download platform is
> working; I can download at 4000 Kb/sec (from Redmond). There may be some sort of regional connectivity issue, however, that
> they can help with.
WOW,,,,,,,,4000Kb/sec!!! And I thought my 120Kb/sec DSL was fast! You must have a direct connection to the drive array it is
stored on.
(just messing with you.....)
james
Willy Denoyette [MVP] - 21 Apr 2005 22:47 GMT
>> Please go to the Subscriber Downloads site and use the Contact Us form to
>> submit this as an issue - the download platform is working; I can
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> (just messing with you.....)
> james
I guess Andy meant 4000Kbit/sec or ~550 Kbyte/sec, nothing extraordinary.
Willy.
Andy Boyd [MS] - 23 Apr 2005 00:04 GMT
Actually, FTM reads for me about 4500 KB/sec - even though this is my
connection from Redmond campus the traffic goes outside our edge routers to
hit Subscriber Downloads. But, even across the public network there's still
not that many hops between here and the data center. What this highlights
(and what we're working on) is reducing the latency issues inherent in our
system; bandwidth and server capacity aren't really bottlenecks for us in
most cases.

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>>> Please go to the Subscriber Downloads site and use the Contact Us form
>>> to submit this as an issue - the download platform is working; I can
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>
> Willy.
james - 23 Apr 2005 01:33 GMT
> Actually, FTM reads for me about 4500 KB/sec - even though this is my connection from Redmond campus the traffic goes outside
> our edge routers to hit Subscriber Downloads. But, even across the public network there's still not that many hops between
> here and the data center. What this highlights (and what we're working on) is reducing the latency issues inherent in our
> system; bandwidth and server capacity aren't really bottlenecks for us in most cases.
Well, I'm still envious!! Maybe, someday out here in the boonies, we will get that kind of speed.
At least what I have for now, is way faster than my Dialup account used to be. I was lucky to get
14.4 download.
james