Depends on how stable your connection is. That's the beauty of torrents vs. direct download. If your net breaks, torrents can just continue on when net returns. The most important thing is if the checksums match, so how you got it really does not matter. And on the off-topic of download speeds: location 1: 11Mb/s - cable location 2: 5.2Mb/s - cable location 3: 54Mb/s - cable location 4: 100Gb/s - fiber location 5: 1,000Gb/s - fiber Gotta love rented servers (4&5)
OK, well... I gotta download at night, but the WCP will be able for me at 11 am. I'll try with IDM, works good for me. I've downloaded the WDP at 1,5mb/s aprox (12mbits), so we'll see what happens on 3 days! --- I guess I'll download the WCP x86 ISO. Somebody knows the filesize of it? I read that its smaller than WDP
We both know what would help that out is an earlier Technet/MSDN release so as to spread the traffic out over a few days. Don't know if they have enough PHDs there to figure this out tho.
THat was the beauty of the Pre Win 7 RTM days. If I remember right, it was easy to get a hold of Win 7 builds even before their public beta release. Not so much this time around. Their servers are going to get slammed hard this Wednesday, especially since there have been no leaks
In any event, you guys won't be competing for bandwidth with me. I'll be waiting for it to hit the newsgroups cuz homey doesn't play http halted or corrupted downloads. But RARs and PARs make me feel warm and cozy inside.
If there is a leak now, just like Nawzil said will I not download it. I prefer an official release where I know sure there isn't messed around with then a leak from random person on the web. If the time difference was 1 week or longer then I did download it, but 2 days now to go.. Going to buy new laptop, format it because I don't need the bloat software of the company and then install WCP on it. Wonder how it will work with MPC-HC and madVR filter/LAV splitter, watching movie a lot... Canouna?