http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/archive/2007/10/18/shades-of-dial-up-batman.aspxWow. What a blast to the past. I've been downloading Kubuntu 7.10 all day. It's been creeping along at 35-50k per second. This reminds me of downloading Windows 95 betas across dial-up. Scratch that. I think even then I had an ISDN line already. I canen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/archive/2007/10/18/shades-of-dial-up-batman.aspx#2206756Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:11:10 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2206756Keith Combs<p>I took a different &quot;route&quot;. &nbsp;After the download and failed installatio of the x64 version, I downloaded the x86 version from Sweden. &nbsp;Much faster. &nbsp;The x86 version installed ok with the standard video drivers. &nbsp;I'll update them later this weekend to see how it does with the NVIDIA driver set. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2206756" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithcombs/archive/2007/10/18/shades-of-dial-up-batman.aspx#2206660Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:57:57 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:2206660dmurillo<p>Hi Keith,</p> <p>Next time, try Free Download Manager...</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/">http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/</a></p> <p>FDM downloads from slow sites by using multiple connections.</p> <p>I'm currently downloading Kubuntu 7.10 Desktop at 790K... without FDM... 45K</p> <p>Hope it helps!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2206660" width="1" height="1">