Can't download, repeated efforts

Question

You apparently are using some proprietary download manager. No matter what network I use,
it degrades the throughput to 5 kb per second or even 1 kb per second. The "Professional Beta 1"
file is so huge that I can get only a small fraction of it over several hours of "downloading". I have
tried the AT&T network, the T-Mobile network, and the Skywave network. While your download
manager is running at degraded rate, I can download other software via Mozilla Firefox at the
regular rate.

Answer 1

I think you've hit a problem related to the proxy configuration on your machine (from the slim details I have available thisminute, probably set to autodiscover rather than a specific proxy).  We found it just as Beta 1 was being released. I don't have the details, but I'm told Aaronru is preparing a blog on this issue with the workaround.

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Thanks, --- Paul Dempsey, VS/.Net Deployment Group

Answer 2

Hi Eddy,

Sorry that you're having some issues.  Can you provide the link to the download page that you are using to download your Visual Studio Professional Beta1?

Thanks!

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Visual Studio & .NET Framework Deployment Program Manager