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1204278 2011-05-23 00:03:00 Every time I want to download a driver from their ftp is painfully slow.

Has anyone experience this?
SKT174 (1319)
1204279 2011-05-23 01:00:00 Can you post a link to the driver/site.

What are you using to download the driver, Web Browser (which one) or a ftp program ?

Did some downloads from HP this morning and it was Ok here.
wainuitech (129)
1204280 2011-05-23 03:33:00 I tried to download this
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/caps-softpaq/sp35546.exe

This is the speed I'm getting (just tried it again)
www.imagef1.net.nz
SKT174 (1319)
1204281 2011-05-23 03:35:00 Try another browser. What browser are you using Speedy Gonzales (78)
1204282 2011-05-23 05:17:00 Might be something holding it up on your PC, whats your Internet connection speed like on other downloads. Just tried it in IE9 & FF, came through between 278 KB/sec & 159KB/sec, on both (up and down a bit) Tried it in opera, 68 KB/sec. wainuitech (129)
1204283 2011-05-23 05:33:00 385.3Kb/s for me (opera). Cato (6936)
1204284 2011-05-23 10:13:00 The HP download sites are rate limited to 1Mbps when they are getting hammered or (in my experience) under any kind of load!!!

I came across the same issue when trying to download their proprietary drivers.

Our HP account manager confirmed this after our networks team found no issues with our Internet connection.

Cheers,
chiefnz (545)
1204285 2011-05-23 22:20:00 My others downloads are fine, just HP sites. I've tried IE9 and FF4 with similar results.

I just tried this morning, and speed is a lot better, averaging 90KB/sec ~
SKT174 (1319)
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