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Old June 9th 18, 01:50 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Paul[_28_]
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Default Win10 ISO on archive.org??

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On Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 2:23:56 AM UTC+8, Paul wrote:
Use the Heidoc URL generator.

You can get any release version of Windows 10 you want.
The URL created, will point to a Microsoft server.
The program has a "Copy URL" button when you've made
your selection. (There shouldn't be any throttling or
monkey business for Windows 10 downloads.)

https://www.heidoc.net/joomla/techno...-download-tool

Thanks for that. Has been downloading for 2h with estimated 6h to go.
Microsoft's servers must get a hammering.



That's not normally a problem.

Make sure you're not downloading onto a FAT32 partition,
as the 64 bit version can be bigger than 4GB.

You can use a download agent that opens multiple
connections, but this normally isn't required for
Win10 OS discs. The content distribution network for
those is pretty good. Even my pitiful broadband can
get a 64-bit ISO of Win10 in about 40 minutes.

For example, when I wanted to get some 7GB ISO from
Microsoft (could have been some SDK or something),
it was only downloading at 60KB/sec. I did the
extra work, to find some downloader that would
open multiple connections (each connection
fetches a byte-range of the file), and then they're
joined together at the end. And that cut the number
of hours by a factor of eight or so. The server is
tolerant of opening multiple connections. Not
all servers support that (some servers police
connection_rate and use a rate limiter, as
well as limiting the max_connections for one
IP address).

I've only seen throttling a couple of times
at microsoft.com , and usually for less frequently
used content. Win10 ISO should not throttle.

Paul