Quote - be able to download it?  I realise that demand is probably quite high but 35k per second? are you kidding me :)

What speeds are you getting? where are you in the world? is there one server in the US being hammered?

Who knows :)

John

PS in the slight hope that my work connection would be faster I am trying it there now, it's now helping much.

I guess I struck lucky in that I downloaded Poser 8 within minutes of its initial release. Even so... my max download speed for the 3 files was 170 kb sec when my line is capable of and generally gives me a download speed of 2 MB sec. The main Poser installation file took 1 hour and 7 minutes to download when it should/could have downloaded within a few minutes. The 2 content files took much, much longer.

My first 2 attempts at downloading the main file failed at 50% and 30%. The 3rd attempt was successful and the 2 content files downloaded at first attempt.

I am located in UK.

It seems crazy that an organisation as large as Smith Micro can not feed their customers with a faster service.

As has been suggested in other threads... it might have helped had they allowed interupted downloads to continue from where they failed, or... to have broken the files down into smaller chunks, especially the 2 larger content files.

"You don't have to be mad to use Poser... but it helps"