I'm sick of this now! I've been at the links for just on 8 hrs now! Been able to get as far as the download link then its dead! PMDG say they have 300 download slots but I am starting to wonder if that's true! Why cant they have a line up system in place? First come first served? Not just a luck of the link!Other then that! PMDG ROCK!Pete

Don't get frustrated, keep at it and you'll get through, just takes a little patience. I was one of the lucky ones. But it took me a LONG time to get it.Paul.

I'm starting to see double. lol__Mary

Sorry guys, I can imagine the frustration but the wait is well worth it. Hope you get it soon![h4]Best Wishes,Randy J. Smithhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/betaimg.jpg

Sorry,but you have to wait. Imagine Network bandwith and the amount of memory available at the same the time for the Server and 5000 requests the same time. As an Administator of Banking Portals Webserver i know what "Fat Boxes" you need to serve thousands parallel request and in addition an Gigabite Uplink.RegardsPeter

>Sorry,>>but you have to wait. Imagine Network bandwith and the amount>of memory available at the same the time for the Server and>5000 requests the same time. As an Administator of Banking>Portals Webserver i know what "Fat Boxes" you need to serve>thousands parallel request and in addition an Gigabite>Uplink.The problem is, there are technologies available right now which would solve this and everyone could be using SU2 right now and not sitting around clicking web links or complaining about it here on the boards.As just one example, BitTorrent would allow PMDG to put a small "tracker" file on their server that only the registered users would have access to (no different than the way they are now distributing the ZIP). When the users hit this tracker file, the download process becomes peer-to-peer, very fast, and everyone is happy. And this doesn't just benefit end-users, PMDG would see a much lower load on their servers, no big bandwidth bills, etc.I find it unacceptable in 2003 that there is still the need to limit users, throttle bandwidth, and frusturate end users when there is technology available that solves all this.And this is proven technology, Redhat uses it to distribute their large Linux distributions:http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.htmlPatrick

I'm afraid they seem to be limited to Microsoft's version of the internet. They are serving with IIS - so you can expect to throttle users and limit bandwidth and other nice features, and pay Bill Gates handsomely for the privilege. Well, I just managed to get a copy of download.asp - very good }(

>I'm afraid they seem to be limited to Microsoft's version of>the internet. They are serving with IIS - so you can expect>to throttle users and limit bandwidth and other nice features,>and pay Bill Gates handsomely for the privilege. Well, I>just managed to get a copy of download.asp - very good }( These technologies (ie BitTorrent) work fine on IIS. It's actually more of a client technology (peer-to-peer) than a server technology. The server justs hosts up a small tracking file to tell the clients who else is downloading, so the clients can all hook up with one another. Works very nicely.

I have used peer to peer stuff, the downside is that you usually have to muck about with your ports, if you scan me now you will probably find I have some ports up in the 1000s open now( I can't be bothered to reset the router),which are a legacy from using this stuff. People with ISPs like AOL don't have a lot of chance with them at all. If I want to exchange stuff with people I know, I just turn on an FTP server, and they can up and download to thier hearts content, simple. Of course you don't get the bandwidth sharing. The problem I anticipate with PMDG is that they get a lot of people on modems using download managers - each one using up to 8 connections so the total bandwidth used isn't much more than 1MBps with 200 'users' on. On the other hand, 200 users with 2Mbps connections is shifting some aeroplanes, there'll be some smoke coming out of that server.