Re: RDI 9.0.1 service pack download

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I consistently find that IBM's download sites are among the slowest in the business. I generally have good download speeds but any download from the Rational sites takes forever.


On 2014-01-10, at 4:05 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I can see 10 minutes if you are using the Installation Manager and going 
> out to the repository on IBM's site.
>
> Downloading the ZIP files, well, I started it this morning - they appear 
> to half done now for the 2 - and that' like 7 hours - my download 
> bandwidth is REALLY wide!
>
> I have seen the 10 minute thing when doing the update as I described.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> On 1/10/2014 8:43 AM, Englander, Douglas wrote:
> > Thank you for that information. IBM said it should take no more than 10 minutes to download, and since it is taking so long on my PC, they are thinking that the problem is with my PC. However, based on the other responses, the lengthy download times are not just specific to my PC. I also stopped it and restarted it. But I did not get the message asking if I wanted to delete the prior files and start all over again.
>
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