Extremely slow Rules Cyclopedia download

[Robotech_Master]

I just bought and am trying to download the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, and I find that even when I do so from a system directly connected to a university's trunk line, I'm only getting 1K per second download rates, or less. For an 80 megabyte file, that means it's going to take me more than a whole day to get it!

And to think I thought that buying it legitimately would be faster than getting a copy off of peer to peer... :(

[Vic Wertz]

Robotech_Master wrote:

I just bought and am trying to download the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, and I find that even when I do so from a system directly connected to a university's trunk line, I'm only getting 1K per second download rates, or less. For an 80 megabyte file, that means it's going to take me more than a whole day to get it!

And to think I thought that buying it legitimately would be faster than getting a copy off of peer to peer... :(

We released a large and much-anticipated web supplement on Thursday that caused an enormous spike in our server traffic, maxing out our bandwidth. It normally shouldn't be that bad.

-Vic.
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[farewell2kings]

Yah, I found out the hard way too. I bought a PDF from Paizo last night and it was 4.9mb and it took almost an hour and a half to download....then I realized that the Savage Tide Player's supplement had been released that same day.

[farewell2kings]

Robotech_Master wrote:

And to think I thought that buying it legitimately would be faster than getting a copy off of peer to peer... :(

Grrrrrrrr....don't get my hackles up about piracy and intellectual property theft. I know you were only kidding, right?

The downloads are normally much faster, I've bought many PDFs from Paizo and last night was not the norm.

[Robotech_Master]

Well, no, I really <i>did</i> think getting a copy commercially would be faster, given that commercial sites have a monetary stake in being able to provide what you pay for quickly and efficiently.

Anyway, I <i>did</i> purchase the file, so Wizards got their money for my consuming a Cyclopedia PDF regardless of where I might get it.