Re: [aus-dotnet] Getting VS2005 quicker by tweaking BITS

[Stewart C Button]

Interesting Geoff.

Not sure if it Transfer Manager takes into account your location.  By 
default mine was using 213.199.138.107 which was giving me about 20 kb/s. 
Moving to 207.46.252.185 by changing the host file and making the security 
changes has instantly pushed it up to 160 kb/s.
Would be interested to know what IP your are downloading from by default.

This is great - haven't been so excited about a software release since 
Windows 95!
Stewart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Appleby" <geoff.appleby@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <dotnet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [aus-dotnet] Getting VS2005 quicker by tweaking BITS


It might be just a problem with you (don't quote me on that :)

At home I'm getting about 160-165 kb a second, which is about right
for my 1.5 meg adsl link.  I've done no tweaks.

It might also depend on (as your tweak suggests) which server you were
lucky enough to be connected to in the first place :)

On 10/28/05, Stewart C Button <stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> BITS is used for downloading software from MSDN subscriber downloads.
> Usually it downloads at about 20 kb/s per stream.  If you perform the
> following tweaks you can get it to download up to 10-15x quicker depending
> on your connection speed.  For me it's downloading at 160 kb/s which means
> I'll have it in five hours or there abouts.
>
> Basically the solution involves changing your host file to make your 
> system
> think it is downloading from the main download server even though you are
> using another faster one.  This technique is courtesy of Jason Mauss. 
> Here
> are the details:
>
> 1) In the hosts file on the machine doing the downloading
> (%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) add an entry for the
> Microsoft server:    207.46.252.185      global.ds.microsoft.com
>
> 2) Then, in Internet Explorer, add https://global.ds.microsoft.com in the
> list of trusted sites under Tools > Internet Options > Security > Trusted
> Sites.
>
> 3) Also, under the privacy tab click the 'Sites' button and enter
> https://global.ds.microsoft.com so that microsoft.com is a trusted domain.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Stewart
>
>
> Stewart C. Button
> Technical Director
> Imagine Interactive
> [w] http://www.imagineinteractive.com.au
> [e] stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [p] +61 413 032 990
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Geoff Appleby
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