As I said, depends a lot on location - if you are in the US or Europe and have decent Internet AWS usually works reasonably well.

Everywhere else on the planet: not so much. Took me over 10 tries to download a relatively small product (2x100MB, which would download in 12-15 minutes each even on my slow South American connection - IF AWS would not kill the download every 3 minutes or so and force me to start over...), only was successful during night time (US).

Enabling download resumes and/or move to a independent hosting platform would solve that problem (btw RO is not the only one with that problem, e.g. Github is facing a growing number of complaints worldwide - their source code is hosted internally, but releases are on AWS - and is considering to move away from AWS completely).

The slow website is a different story - Webserver overloaded and the aggressive ADs that clutter every page and search result don't help either.

Anyways, I'm outta here - there is a lot of cute and unique stuff on Renderosity, but the combination of slow site, often outdated products, pricing, and bugged download system that wastes my time in an unreasonable way - not very attractive.

this has nothing to do with the site response times, the downloads are not hosted on the same server, but in the Amazon spy cloud.

And that, as everybody in the industry knows, is unreliable AF, depending on where you live, AND DOES NOT ALLOW TO RESUME DOWNLOADS (at least not in the configuration that Renderosity is obviously using)..

I just made a purchase, and can not download the 2x100MB since I keep getting 'Interrupted, Network Error', followed by 'can not resume: FORBIDDEN'.

Not everybody on this planet (actually only a small minority) is sitting on 10TB optical fibre, and not allowing to resume downloads is plain and simple annoying and basically 'racist'. ;)

The consequence is simple: this was my last purchase here, even DAZ3D is able to resume downloads with their Install Manager, and even pirate sites are smart enough to use file hosters that allow resuming...

Hey, thanks FlagonsWorkshop !! Really appreciated!

I was not sure if it was my n00bishness (never was a pro in the Poser world, took a couple years off, now getting slowly into Daz Studio, but still struggling with the basics, lol) or if these rather complex outfits are simply a nightmare to convert...

Looks like the latter...

Don't break your back though - the amateurish renders that I will produce are not worth it! :D

Oh, and I forgot to mention - I already tried the 'clones', they work reasonably well for the clothes (floating caps etc, but overall usable), but mess up stuff like the equipment belts, parenting seems not to work (I move the figure, the belt stays in place and deforms wildly, lol), etc...

Well, I guess I will invest those 25 bucks and test the converter.

Really sad that most of the historically interesting models/outfits seem to be abandoned and stuck in the Poser world. Probably the market is smaller than that for the 9342th HOT 'whateverboobenhancingoutfit' :D

FlagonsWorkshop posted at 2:00PM Mon, 18 March 2019 - #4348300

Look for this product over at DAZ: RSSY Clothing Converter from Michael 4 to Genesis 8 Male

Thanks for the idea! May I ask if you successfully used it with the Tannenbaum uniforms/outfits? I do not intend to convert hundreds of old oufits, just a few, mainly the Tannenbaum WW2 uniforms and equipment, and would love to know that the converter works well for them (heard it has trouble with accessoires/props).

Same problem, tried to download a couple freebies, needed a few dozen retries (on slow internet, but still).

I had similar issues with Github releases recently - according to their support it is an Amazon cloud thing (where they host their files, I think Renderosity does as well?).

The biggest annoyance is not even that the downloads stop at some point, but that you can not resume them ('blahblah FORBIDDEN'), you have to start over.

This is something browsers and download managers have been able to do since the 1990s and modern 'cloud services' saw the need to break it, probably because the developers sit on 5000 TB/s optical fiber and can not imagine there are still people out there where downloads take longer than a few nanoseconds...