You guys complain about our file size, whew!

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You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« on: 3 Dec 2008, 12:32 am »
Though I only get them occasionally, now and then someone complains about how
long it takes to download our 55mb PDF file...

Today I just bought my upgrade to Adobe Photoshop (CS4) and it was a whopping
1018 mb!  Took about 18 min to download, but still a lot faster than driving over to Best
Buy!

Wow!

TomS

Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #1 on: 3 Dec 2008, 01:08 am »
Though I only get them occasionally, now and then someone complains about how
long it takes to download our 55mb PDF file...

Today I just bought my upgrade to Adobe Photoshop (CS4) and it was a whopping
1018 mb!  Took about 18 min to download, but still a lot faster than driving over to Best
Buy!

Wow!
Wow, just wait until your ISP starts throttling your bandwidth any time now...  :o

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Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #2 on: 3 Dec 2008, 01:33 am »
Considering all the information you have in your monthly publishings, it's well worth the wait. I usually just open up another page and move onto something else. then in a half hours time, I come back to your page and it's ready to go. It's not that big a deal for me personally. :D

Cheers,
Robin

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Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #3 on: 3 Dec 2008, 03:38 am »
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Considering all the information you have in your monthly publishings, it's well worth the wait.

Agreed, I have no problem waiting for Tone to download  :thumb:

TONEPUB

Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #4 on: 3 Dec 2008, 04:52 am »
Though I only get them occasionally, now and then someone complains about how
long it takes to download our 55mb PDF file...

Today I just bought my upgrade to Adobe Photoshop (CS4) and it was a whopping
1018 mb!  Took about 18 min to download, but still a lot faster than driving over to Best
Buy!

Wow!
Wow, just wait until your ISP starts throttling your bandwidth any time now...  :o

Nah, I pay the extra 20 bucks a month for Comcast Business class.  No limits on downloads.
Well worth the money.

Satfrat: I'm surprised it's taking so long.  Usually a couple of minutes on a high speed connection.

Also, we've had the best luck just downloading it to a folder, your desktop, whatever and then
reading the PDF offline in Adobe Reader or Preview if you are on a Mac.  Goes super fast then!

And btw, thanks for reading!  We appreciate it....



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Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #5 on: 3 Dec 2008, 05:00 am »
I need to upgrade my RAM. :roll:

chosenhandle

Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #6 on: 3 Dec 2008, 01:55 pm »
I need to upgrade my RAM. :roll:

crucial.com was giving it away about a month ago. I bought 2gb for $15 shipping included.

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Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #7 on: 9 Dec 2008, 02:45 am »
Today I just bought my upgrade to Adobe Photoshop (CS4) and it was a whopping
1018 mb!  Took about 18 min to download, but still a lot faster than driving over to Best
Buy!

Wow!

I think that I could walk to Best Buy in the time that it would take me to d/l that file.

Pat

TONEPUB

Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #8 on: 9 Dec 2008, 02:57 am »
Not me, and certainly not at midnight when I decided to buy it.....

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Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #9 on: 9 Dec 2008, 04:23 am »
Though I only get them occasionally, now and then someone complains about how
long it takes to download our 55mb PDF file...

Today I just bought my upgrade to Adobe Photoshop (CS4) and it was a whopping
1018 mb!  Took about 18 min to download, but still a lot faster than driving over to Best
Buy!

Wow!

When I dl'ed the SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET, I remember it being over a gig.

Try downloading the entire CS4 package, I bet on a torrent it'll take a lot longer than 18 minutes, but then again, getting it for free has its tradeoffs :P

 

TONEPUB

Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #10 on: 9 Dec 2008, 06:06 am »
Getting software for free is stealing.

Probably not a good idea to announce that on a web forum.  Adobe is getting
pretty militant about prosecuting that kind of thing.

Besides, I use it to earn my living, I don't mind paying for it. 

Affordable$$Audio

Re: You guys complain about our file size, whew!
« Reply #11 on: 10 Dec 2008, 06:35 pm »
I got an email from a reader in Greece last week, he has just a phone line for Internet, so he downloads both TONE and A$$A overnight when they are ready.  Five minutes TONE sure doesn't seem very long, now does it?