daisy Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hi Guys As the title says. I have been having problems downloading BFC products since they moved to their new hosting partner. Just for the record, I am on my 5th attempt to download RT, my connection is stable and never have problems downloading files of similar or even bigger size. So for those that have downloaded RT, which browser and download manager are you using? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I just used Chrome and had no problems. (On Linux) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hi daisy, on the Mac, just use plain Safari. I've found that to be the most reliable. On the PC, I just use the regular Firefox browser without plugins, and never had any issues. The recommendation to use download managers is actually more of a legacy thing for older game downloads. We will remove that recommendation entirely in the near future, as simple browser downloads work best. For the record, our new partner is hosting the downloads on a major Amazon cloud backbone. There are the occasional glitches associated with that, but overall it's very stable, and most problems I've seen so far were related to the client side (e.g. Norton 360 blocking download, connectivity issues downstream, and so forth). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Martin, are you at liberty to tell us whether all downloads are the same and whether we would be allowed to distribute them via a reliable method such as bittorrent among each other? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Chrome direct download (PC) worked fine for me too. Never liked download managers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 BTW, the md5 checksum for my download: 129e9acfeb9537fc77f1886e6573def3 CM_RedThunder_Setup.exe Anyone else? (to clarify, this is the checksum of the downloaded file, not the key) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisy Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hi Moon I am on Windows 8 and have tried with Firefox and Chrome, each time it bombs out. Again trying with Firefox. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rake Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Direct download was fast (Win7 w/ Firefox), 2G in 4-1/2 minutes... faster than the transfer to my flash drive. Now to kill some red b@$+@rd$ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdeath Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hi Guys As the title says. I have been having problems downloading BFC products since they moved to their new hosting partner. Just for the record, I am on my 5th attempt to download RT, my connection is stable and never have problems downloading files of similar or even bigger size. So for those that have downloaded RT, which browser and download manager are you using? Try to download it from me: [url removed] I hope this is still ok with Battlefront (If it not, poke me with a stick and I'll remove it as soon as possible) File: 01_CM_RedThunder_Setup.exe CRC-32: 79523c83 MD4: 1c3f9a567e108bcfd65d8c131d7d91af MD5: 129e9acfeb9537fc77f1886e6573def3 SHA-1: 80418b021fe29f791f18f2b09df73a54d746ba39 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 No, you are not allowed to distribute the download publicly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Hi Moon I am on Windows 8 and have tried with Firefox and Chrome, each time it bombs out. Again trying with Firefox. As I said, the problem is most likely on the client side, judging from past experience with support so far. Keep in mind that these are pretty downloads, so without a fast and reliable connection, all sorts of things can go wrong that are entirely unrelated to the host, and that we really can't do anything about. I would suggest NOT using any download managers but going for straight browser downloads if you have a good connection. I saw some issues related to some Chrome download manager/plugin the other day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Can you at least switch to something that allows restarting an aborted download? (as opposed to starting all over from start again, which costs you money, too?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisy Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 I do not have any issues downloading any large files or games, save from the BFC hosting partner. Having the abillity to continue with an aborted dowload would also be great because having to restart a download multiple times after it has downloaded hundreds of megs isnt ideal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volksgrenadier Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 "Battlefront strongly recommends to use a download manager." AARGH! I had 4 GB mobile bandwidth left and must reach with it April 10th. The used downloadmanager DownThemAll (Firefox) corrupted the file. No recovery information stored in the RAR archive. So i will have to use up all my remainung bandwidth only because of this wrong recommendation. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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