If you’re a TechNet subscriber like I am, you may be totally aggravated by the way Microsoft’s downloader bounces between 100 and 200 KB/sec when downloading Windows 7. It was taking something like 5 hours…unacceptable!
Then I spotted this tip in a user forum.
Instead of going to your usual subscriber downloads space that wants to use the Microsoft File Transfer Manger, hit the Top Downloads navigation at the top of the page. As seen here.
This will kick off the Akamai download manager, where the speed is about a gazillion times better. What’s a “gazillion times better”? Well in my case, it’s nearly 2 MB/sec.
Even starting a couple hours later and starting the download over, I’ll be done long before the Filter Transfer Manager would. In fact, I started just before I made this post, and now I have about 20 minutes left.
