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Slow download of flash player 10.1, why?

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July 18, 2010
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I'm currently trying to download flash player 10.1 for my system but with the getplus downloader its running at approx 4bytes/s, not even downloading in kb/s. I thought it may be an error with the program so i tried to just download the standalone executable and i'm getting a download speed of 3bytes/s, again i could write the program faster.

I have check my internet connection speed and with downloads from other sites i'm getting 600-800kb/s.

I have managed to download it once but it just took 5hrs and crashed when it came to installation.

I'm trying again but it looks like i'll have to cancel it at this rate due to going to bed

Any ideas, or shall i just give up and not use half the sites on the internet until a cure is found?

Window 7 32bit,

2GB Ram

IE8,

AVG Free.

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Anonymous

I was having the exact same issue, and got fed up with it after reading some of the replies in this topic.

So I tried a proxy website, and it downloaded in seconds, I am from the UK, so there must be a problem, and it ain't my connection.

So, for those having trouble, I have setup a mirror for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, I will also update this mirror when new versions are released.

[url removed]

If this is not allowed, delete this reply and fix your servers.

Kind Regards,

Andy Rixon

Message was edited by Jochem van Dieten

pwillener

Legend

AndyRixon wrote:
I have setup a mirror for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 ...

I do not think that Adobe will allow that; all download sites (including CNET, Majorgeeks, Filehippo, etc.) do not have their own downloads, they all link back to the Adobe download servers. Also, your "mirror" is of no use for those needing the ActiveX installer.

I have flagged your post so that a moderator can have a look at it.

AndyRixon wrote:
... and fix your servers.

There is nothing wrong with the Adobe download servers; I have again just downloaded all four Windows installers, and each downloaded within one second. And I am at the other side of the Pacific ocean.

But since many of you who posted here seem to be in the UK, maybe there is something wrong with the route between the Adobe servers and the UK. Can some of you issue a traceroute command to find out where the problem lies? Issue one of these commands (from Command Prompt):

tracert fpdownload.adobe.com

or

tracert fpdownload.macromedia.com

The traceroute output from here is

Tracing route to e526.d.akamaiedge.net [69.192.242.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms 192.168.1.1
2     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms Tok5B8.vectant.ne.jp [163.139.126.136]
3     7 ms     6 ms     7 ms 163-139-126-158.rv.vectant.ne.jp [163.139.126.158]
4     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms 163-139-68-53.rv.vectant.ne.jp [163.139.68.53]
5     6 ms     7 ms     6 ms 163.139.128.102
6     6 ms     7 ms     6 ms 124.211.10.65
7     6 ms     6 ms     7 ms otejbb204.kddnet.ad.jp [118.155.197.130]
8    20 ms    24 ms    11 ms cm-ote251.kddnet.ad.jp [59.128.7.144]
9     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms 118.159.224.6
10     8 ms     9 ms     7 ms a125-56.201-250.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [125.56.201.250]
11     7 ms     7 ms     6 ms a69-192-242-70.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [69.192.242.70]

Trace complete.

We can see that the longest hop is over the Pacific ocean, but it's still very fast. So where does your problem lie?

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grahamwebb2011b

Participant

Traceroute keep closing command prompt window so can't post you output. But it's about 25ms each entry, from UK.

I'm having same problems with Adobe download. Was told to download flash player 10.1 from youtube. So can't use youtube at the moment. Thanks Adobe!

If it aint broke ..

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poppyboom

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oh my god guys, what are you up to, someone at your HQ should get a serious kicking about this.

Same problem on my small samsung nc-10 laptop with win xp sp2. Just tried uninstalling flash player because, for some reason

, thie latest autoinstaller didnt install properly, causing my mom's notebook to constantly display the warning information bar every time flash player was in the source of the page.

After trying to find the download on cnet, i was redirected to macromedia homepage, which by the way is TOTALLY not optimised for anything smaller than 1200x800 pixe displays. The main "download" button you have on that fancy new design someone over there thinks is great, is offset and literally took me 10 minutes to find. I clicked on every other "get flash player" button on that page which just leads you back to the same page before i finally noticed the main button in the middle, which looks more like a flash ad than a download link - and i should know I'm a professional web-designer. And so should you, being the biggest supplier of web dev products in recent history.

Finally noticing the button i proceeded with the installation, hey ho, same problem i encountered several moons ago - incredibly slow dowload!

I tried using the links in your posts, all having the same crappy low download speed.

Whats happening over there? Have you all decided to cut costs even though your products get more and more expensive year to year? Replaced those fancy server farms with old skool dialups for delivering the latest flash player, which gets updated every bloody 10 days for absolutely no purpose at all other than to annoy you with those "latest flash player is ready for download" messages (joke)

SOme serious usability issues here boys, better rethink your product delivery strategies. Adobe downloader... wow what a great idea, serve ads down our throat whilst we wait for the neverending flash player download?

Well, i took time to write this out, but i wont take any more time installing flash player on this machine, my mum can live without it now that this whole affair has upset me so much. And im late to see a girl because of you. Shame on you.

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authoriseduser

Participating Frequently

Okay, I killed the Flash Player installation and tried putting Adobe Shockwave on - that downloaded in just a few seconds, so it has something to do with their Flash Player download, maybe having to do with where it downloading from, but it's garbage and I'm really surprised that Adobe has not fixed this yet.

Adobe seems to have had so many problems with Flash Player in the last 6 months or a year or so.

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FC360

Participant

I've actually been thinking about downloading the file and putting it on my own server, but the problem is I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, and also when a new version is released I would have to download that and upload to my server manually.

pwillener

Legend

FC360 wrote:
I've actually been thinking about downloading the file and putting it on my own server, but the problem is I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this

No problem if it is for use inside your company. Not sure if it is for the general public (all download sites like Filehippo, Majorgeeks, CNET ultimately redirect to the Adobe download site).

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Bored-waiting

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Months later and its still as slooooooow as hell to download anything from Adobe....... maybe they dont actually want you to use

their software ? Been waiting 40min for a 2.9mb file to download and its still at 3%

downloading at 60bytes/sec....

Dire, absolutely dire....

pwillener

Legend

I don't know what is taking you so long to download; I just tried it and it took less than 10 secs to complete the download.

Try to download from this site http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html

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FC360

Participant

yep same problem here, was having issues with adobe flash so decided to reinstall it, bad idea, after an hour It's still not downloaded this is pretty pathetic. I know it's nothing to do with my connection as I can download files that are 10MB in a few minutes from other websites and speed tests say my internet speed is what it normally is, so it has to be Adobe's servers and needs to be fixed.

pwillener

Legend

Use these download links (without download manager)

for Internet Explorer: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe
for all other browsers: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe

Save the installer(s) to disk, then close all browser windows and run the downloaded installer(s).

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Stevie_W

Participant

Good grief guy's,

We can't get it any faster than this ?

I even tried the links above and guess what, they didn't even register on the download speed!

The flash player manager up-date is still on 15.8%, and has taken 25 mins to get to that.

I'm on a 50Mb Connection?

Whats happened?

Thanks.

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