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SW2009 DVD's Arrived Yet?
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I grabbed a media kit from my VAR when he was here on a visit!CBL,
It's normal for a home connection to be far faster than a business connection. They're set up that way intentionally by the ISP. Home connections are geared towards download as that's what most people do at home. Business connections are set up normally with equal download and upload speeds.
Yet my question still remains. Why does it matter how long it takes to download? Start it and put it in the background and keep working, or start it at night before you leave and it will be there in the morning. We're comfortable waiting days for a DVD to reach its destination but we're not willing to wait a few hours for a download?
Cole M
CSWP, CSWST, CSWI, CPDM
HP XW4300, 3.4g proc, 2.5g RAM, ATI Fire GL 3100
Dell M90, Core 2 Duo, 4g RAM, Nvidia Quadra FX2500M
Equus (custom), P4, 3.4g proc, 3g RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX3400
It's normal for a home connection to be far faster than a business connection. They're set up that way intentionally by the ISP. Home connections are geared towards download as that's what most people do at home. Business connections are set up normally with equal download and upload speeds.
Yet my question still remains. Why does it matter how long it takes to download? Start it and put it in the background and keep working, or start it at night before you leave and it will be there in the morning. We're comfortable waiting days for a DVD to reach its destination but we're not willing to wait a few hours for a download?
Cole M
CSWP, CSWST, CSWI, CPDM
HP XW4300, 3.4g proc, 2.5g RAM, ATI Fire GL 3100
Dell M90, Core 2 Duo, 4g RAM, Nvidia Quadra FX2500M
Equus (custom), P4, 3.4g proc, 3g RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX3400
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Like I said earlier for me there is no logical reason to want the DVD. It just gives me the warm and fuzzy feeling when I install off the DVD vs downloading the installation files. It purely a psychological thing for me. I trust a DVD install more than a down loaded install.
I downloaded 2009 at home when it first came out and have used it without a problem. Two weeks ago at the '09 rollout the VAR indicated the DVD had files the download did not. The extra files are for PhotoView 360 which appears to give 91.3%* the result of PhotoWorks with only 10.7% of the effort, plus it is super fast.
Has anyone found the PhotoView 360 available as a download?
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* 87.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Has anyone found the PhotoView 360 available as a download?
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* 87.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
CorBlimeyLimey
Mechanical
sldwkmin,
My home line is faster because I pay for the faster connection. My first connection was dial-up and ridiculously slow (~2KB/s), so when DSL became available in my area I paid for the upgrade to ~60KB/s. The ISP then upgraded the line to give me ~125KB/s. Since then I have paid to upgrade again to a higher package and now get ~500KB/s.
Where I work, a high speed DSL connection is simply not available. Most we can get is ~125KB/s. We were actually paying for a 500KB/s line for quite a while and when we questioned why we weren't getting that, a search at the ISP end found that we are too far from the nearest connection point (or whatever the correct term is).
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My home line is faster because I pay for the faster connection. My first connection was dial-up and ridiculously slow (~2KB/s), so when DSL became available in my area I paid for the upgrade to ~60KB/s. The ISP then upgraded the line to give me ~125KB/s. Since then I have paid to upgrade again to a higher package and now get ~500KB/s.
Where I work, a high speed DSL connection is simply not available. Most we can get is ~125KB/s. We were actually paying for a 500KB/s line for quite a while and when we questioned why we weren't getting that, a search at the ISP end found that we are too far from the nearest connection point (or whatever the correct term is).
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I just received my Solidworks 2009 this morning. I'll do my upgrade tonight. Hopefully Vista doesn't get mad at me.
Kyle Chandler
"To the Pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the Optimist, the glass is half-full. To the Engineer, the glass is twice as large as it needs to be!"
Kyle Chandler
"To the Pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the Optimist, the glass is half-full. To the Engineer, the glass is twice as large as it needs to be!"
Vista shouldn't give you any problems. SW2008 and SW2009 run just fine on my Vista x32 laptop.
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW2008 SP4.0, Windows Vista SP1
IBM ThinkPad T61p, T7800, FX570M, 4 gigs of RAM
Cheers,
Anna Wood
SW2008 SP4.0, Windows Vista SP1
IBM ThinkPad T61p, T7800, FX570M, 4 gigs of RAM
GRF,
It took me 2 years to get my shipping address and phone number corrected (SW & VAR), then my subscription stopped.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
It took me 2 years to get my shipping address and phone number corrected (SW & VAR), then my subscription stopped.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
did anyone read that 2009 will let you run surfaces with respect to a graph or equation?
Bart Brejcha Chicago
DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION
surfacing and Pro/CABLE training
Bart Brejcha Chicago
DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION
surfacing and Pro/CABLE training
evolDiesel
Mechanical
My VAR said that SWx gave the VAR's a polling and asked how they want to receive media (CD's, DVD's, Thumbdrive, web).
Turned out the majority said "web", and he was under the impression that SWx was going to get rid of all "hard" media starting in 2009.
Given a high speed connection, web makes the most sense to me. It will always beat hard copies tracking through shipping.
Turned out the majority said "web", and he was under the impression that SWx was going to get rid of all "hard" media starting in 2009.
Given a high speed connection, web makes the most sense to me. It will always beat hard copies tracking through shipping.
I received my DVD in the mail today. Call me old-fashioned, but I just feel better having the copy in hand rather than the downloads. I'll probably install it on my machine tomorrow.
Dan
Dan's Blog
Dan
Dan's Blog
Theophilus
Mechanical
Mine came via FedEx Ground a few minutes ago. My address is apparently now correct in the great corporate database. Woot.
Jeff Mowry
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
Jeff Mowry
A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.
I like the paperless office. Count me in for the download if anyone is counting.
Bart Brejcha Chicago
DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION
surfacing and Pro/CABLE training
Bart Brejcha Chicago
DESIGN-ENGINE|EDUCATION
surfacing and Pro/CABLE training
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