It's normal for a home connection to be far faster than a business connection. They're set up that way intentionally by the ISP. Home connections are geared towards download as that's what most people do at home. Business connections are set up normally with equal download and upload speeds.
Yet my question still remains. Why does it matter how long it takes to download? Start it and put it in the background and keep working, or start it at night before you leave and it will be there in the morning. We're comfortable waiting days for a DVD to reach its destination but we're not willing to wait a few hours for a download?
Cole M
CSWP, CSWST, CSWI, CPDM
HP XW4300, 3.4g proc, 2.5g RAM, ATI Fire GL 3100
Dell M90, Core 2 Duo, 4g RAM, Nvidia Quadra FX2500M
Equus (custom), P4, 3.4g proc, 3g RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX3400
Like I said earlier for me there is no logical reason to want the DVD. It just gives me the warm and fuzzy feeling when I install off the DVD vs downloading the installation files. It purely a psychological thing for me. I trust a DVD install more than a down loaded install.
I downloaded 2009 at home when it first came out and have used it without a problem. Two weeks ago at the '09 rollout the VAR indicated the DVD had files the download did not. The extra files are for PhotoView 360 which appears to give 91.3%* the result of PhotoWorks with only 10.7% of the effort, plus it is super fast.
Has anyone found the PhotoView 360 available as a download?
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* 87.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
My home line is faster because I pay for the faster connection. My first connection was dial-up and ridiculously slow (~2KB/s), so when DSL became available in my area I paid for the upgrade to ~60KB/s. The ISP then upgraded the line to give me ~125KB/s. Since then I have paid to upgrade again to a higher package and now get ~500KB/s.
Where I work, a high speed DSL connection is simply not available. Most we can get is ~125KB/s. We were actually paying for a 500KB/s line for quite a while and when we questioned why we weren't getting that, a search at the ISP end found that we are too far from the nearest connection point (or whatever the correct term is).
My DVD's have arrived. Shipped to the wrong address (another building) but they have arrived at my company. Why is it that SW can not get the addresses right?????? How many times does my VAR have to ask for the database to be updated???
I received my DVD in the mail today. Call me old-fashioned, but I just feel better having the copy in hand rather than the downloads. I'll probably install it on my machine tomorrow.
![[cheers]](/data/assets/smilies/cheers.gif "[cheers] [cheers]")
I grabbed a media kit from my VAR when he was here on a visit!
