I am facing difficulties downloading with the Adobe Download Assistant.

actually Jeff, it was the Adobe Application Manager.. my mistake.

however, I get the same error as others have been seeing:

"retrying..."

"unable to reach adobe servers. Please check your internet connectiviity, firewall settings, and try again."

sometimes it will get to 1% sometimes it will get to 2% and continues with the error messages.

the pdapp logs show these.. alot:

06/03/13 14:06:36:094 | [WARN] |  | ASU | PDApp | DownloadErrorVo |  |  | 6212 | Error has come from GDE with error type - -45 and error code - 12002

06/03/13 14:06:36:094 | [WARN] |  | ASU | PDApp | DownloadError |  |  | 6212 | Download Error has come with GDE Error type - -45 and error code - 12002

06/03/13 14:06:41:133 | [INFO] |  | ASU | PDApp | DLM.ApplicationFacade |  |  | 6212 | sendNotification = productSessionRetrySimulatedClickSignal, type = null

06/03/13 14:06:41:133 | [INFO] |  | ASU | PDApp | DLM.ApplicationFacade |  |  | 6212 | sendNotification = executeCCMDownloadWorkflowSignal, type = null

06/03/13 14:06:41:133 | [INFO] |  | ASU | PDApp | DLM.ApplicationFacade |  |  | 6212 | sendNotification = executeProdSessWorkflow, type = null

06/03/13 14:06:41:134 | [INFO] |  | ASU | PDApp | DLM.ApplicationFacade |  |  | 6212 | sendNotification = resumeButtonSignal, type = null

06/03/13 14:06:43:259 | [INFO] |  | ASU | PDApp | DLM.ApplicationFacade |  |  | 6212 | sendNotification = handleNativeDataSignal, type = null

06/03/13 14:06:43:259 | [INFO] |  | ASU | PDApp | DLM.ApplicationFacade |  |  | 6212 | sendNotification = commonNativeDataHandleSignal, type = null

06/03/13 14:06:43:259 | [INFO] |  | ASU | PDApp | DLM.ApplicationFacade |  |  | 6212 | sendNotification = handleNativeDataForCCMDownloadWorkflowSignal, type = null

when I watch the program with Process Monitor, the application just sits and spins doing this over and over:

2:08:41.3886353 PM PDapp.exe 1268 TCP Connect mycomputer:1487 -> a23-2-17-155.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http SUCCESS Length: 0, mss: 1460, sackopt: 1, tsopt: 0, wsopt: 1, rcvwin: 65700, rcvwinscale: 8, sndwinscale: 7, seqnum: 0, connid: 0

2:08:41.3889664 PM PDapp.exe 1268 TCP Send mycomputer:1487 -> a23-2-17-155.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http SUCCESS Length: 255, startime: 9242, endtime: 9242, seqnum: 0, connid: 0

2:08:41.4409076 PM PDapp.exe 1268 TCP Receive mycomputer:1487 -> a23-2-17-155.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com:http SUCCESS Length: 502, seqnum: 0, connid: 0

2:08:41.4682341 PM PDapp.exe 1268 WriteFile E:\Temp\{3F09476F-4AB7-4717-908C-4451D38F39EA}\FlashPro_12_LS16.exe.aamdownload SUCCESS Offset: 31,195,896, Length: 261,384

2:08:41.4683055 PM PDapp.exe 1268 WriteFile E:\Temp\{3F09476F-4AB7-4717-908C-4451D38F39EA}\FlashPro_12_LS16.exe.aamdownload.aamd SUCCESS Offset: 312, Length: 21

2:08:45.7597112 PM PDapp.exe 1268 QueryStandardInformationFile E:\DataCache\PDApp.log SUCCESS AllocationSize: 851,968, EndOfFile: 801,942, NumberOfLinks: 1, DeletePending: False, Directory: False

connects/disconnects from Akamai, getting basically nothing.. then logs it, and rinse and repeat.