>>I've been trying to download VS2008 RTM since yesterday. I've been able to download up to 2GB of the 3.5+ GB iso image file, but the process aborts sooner or later.
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>>Here's the funny thing, or pathetic, (whatever you want to call it would be appropriate): despite using a download manager, after the process fails, it won't resume from where it left it at, the download simply starts over!!
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>>Some MSDN agent told me that is because of the many people trying to download it at the same time.
>>No kidding, amen mother.
>>Now it makes total sense.
>>I guess that next time, subscribers should coordinate efforts on who's to download first, establishing turns or stuff like that.
>>Sorry MSDN people, you took us all by surprise with this sudden new release.
>>Our bad.
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>Ditto. I haven't been able to get past 35% so far. I've tried 4 times. DL Manager gives me some network connection failed error, and then tells me there has been a fatal error and the download will abort (no resume).
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>Nice that they tossed the old download manager that worked fine (and also let you throttle downloads in case you had limited bandwidth).

This is a SWAG that might not apply to MSDN downloads, but have you tried downloading with a browser other than IE? Depending on what a given download manager actually is and how it needs to be invoked (e.g. ActiveX), using a non-IE browser can sometimes force complete bypass of the download manager. For the price of FireFox or Opera it might be worth a try ;)