Sorry about that. Opera downloaded the entire ISO for me in less than two
hours and never paused once. I cannot understand why everyone's experience
is so different.
Ron
"dunc" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks. I've now tried - IE6, Firefox, Getright, the Vista suggested
> download manager and now Opera.
>
> I get the same problem on all of them - a 13.7Mb file.
>
> Each time it just confirms more that the MS servers are screwed - for most
> of us trying the x64 bin anyway 
>
> "Ron Miller" <millerDOT90@osu.edu> wrote in message
> news:%23riMM%23$iGHA.3440@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Matt Carter wrote:
>>> THank you for this Mark. Silly me! I should ALWAYS check my e-mail! 
>>>
>>> I did try this though, THANK YOU! I got the SAME error message!
>>> (not mad at you!)
>>>
>>> Thank you for your interest in Windows Vista Beta 2.
>>>
>>> We are currently experiencing a high level of demand and cannot process
>>> your request at this time.
>>>
>>> Please check back later for availability. We apologize for any
>>> inconvenience.
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to download from file
>>>
>>> http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...t/1149728719/1
>>>
>>> I clicked on the x32 and download button:
>>>
>>> It takes me to:
>>> http://download.windowsvista.com/dl/...FRE_EN_DVD.iso
>>>
>>> On the page I get:
>>> Access denied.
>>>
>>> Please go to http://www.windowsvista.com/getready/preview
>>
>> Here's an interesting twist. I got NOwhere by trying to use either IE7
>> or Firefox for the Beta-2 download. A friend told me to try Opera. Using
>> the latest version of Opera, I pasted the link from the email MS sent me
>> with the product key. Lo and behold, I was taken to a DIFFERENT MS page,
>> which others on this forum have described, but I'd certainly never seen
>> it with Firefox or IE7. It had links for downloading either x86 or x64
>> via Akami Download Manager and corresponding links for downloading with
>> "your own download manager." Since Opera has a built-in DM, I clicked
>> the link to download the 32-bit version with my own DM, and it started
>> downloading immediately at 360KBs. It hasn't slowed down yet, and I have
>> 35% of the download completed in less than 50 minutes. I don't know how
>> far it will continue, but after about 200 fruitless tries to get the
>> download started with IE and Firefox and then getting it on the FIRST TRY
>> with Opera, I'd say there's something strange going on here. Toto, I
>> don't think we're in Redmond any more.
>>
>> Conclusion: if you're frustrated with the download, give Opera a try. It
>> certainly can't hurt anything.
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