Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

few i got mine

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

64bit - OK, I've done it - point your download manager to use this as a proxy
69.19.14.10 port 80

And it will then report the correct file size AND download it... :)

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

DOnt you mean Port 8080 as Port 80 would still get caught by NTL's transparent caches.

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Did not work for me. Used FFox and IE

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Well I have my download and my key but I'm trying to work out if it's really worth the hassle of installing it. Will my hardware work? Will my other PC be able to connect and access my files though file and printer sharing like now?

So many questions and I can't seem to see the answers. :(

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

So do a dual-boot and you dont have to worry about any of that

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Or if you have a spare drive install it on that.

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Didnt I just say that? :)

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Nope you said dual boot and I said install on a spare drive.:D

I had a spare 80GB drive I wasn't using so connected that and installed on there. Now if I want to use Vista I just swap drives over.

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Well I have finally decided to give up trying to install this stupid Beta Vista.
Downloaded a second ISO file and burnt it to disc at the slowest speed Nero would let me, and that was 4x speed. Now it manages to get to 61% install before giving the dreaded Error 80070241. Would never surprise me if Microsoft has a dodgy download in the hope people will buy the disc. I know others have managed to download and install, but after two downloads and three burns, one failed on burn, am giving up. Using an empty 60gig drive so it should have been no problem.
Now have two key codes with nothing to use them on. :-(

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

No, I mean Port 80. I use Getright 6 Pro and that has an option to "defeat other caches" which pwned NTL's. In fact it didn't work until I did select that option.

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This is what i mean.

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Edit 2... I must have been dopey this morning, I do of course mean port 3128, sorry :(

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

nffc - you're an absolute gem :) Many thanks.

I have been tearing my hair out for the last few days trying to download both the 32 & 64 bit versions of Vista. Your method appears to work with both versions with the 32 bit version also now reporting the correct size - hopefully it will get past the 2GB cut off point that so many of us are experiencing.

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

Any third party proxy server that you can find on the Internet, which uses other than port 80, should work. As long as they let you waste 4 Gb of bandwidth. ;)

If you want to stick to using an NTL proxy, here is a solution. You can use one of the still remaining, old proxies of the form cacheX-lang.server.ntli.net:8080 (where X is 1, 2 or 3).These return the correct file size. Unfortunately, these proxies do not support download resuming, so if you are almost at 4 gigs and the download disconnects, you can start all over again.

An avenue I tried is to start the download with one of the cacheX-lang proxies to get the right size, and download a few megabytes. I then changed back to one of the standard NTL proxies and resumed the download. The download does resume, but it stops at 13.7 Mb.

So it looks like the only solution at the moment is to either use a third party proxy, or use one of the cacheX-lang proxies for the entire download, and pray that you don't get disconnected.

EDIT: I can also confirm that nffc's solution (proxy IP 69.19.14.10 port 3128) works wonderfully. Even though it's a proxy in USA, I am getting full download speed at the maximum possible with my 2 Mbps connection.

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

I had that error a couple of times, I redownloaded and then reburnt at 2x and it was fine. Best thing to do is burn the DVD as slow as possible.

Re: Windows Vista Beta 2 Download Available
 

In case you want to verify your download before burning it to a DVD, here are the MD5 hashes of the files:

32-bit version (vista_5384.4.060518-1455_winmain_beta2_x86fre_client-LB2CFRE_EN_DVD.iso): 0e733ab1a8e8ff9a8684fd3639332773
64-bit version (vista_5384.4.060518-1455_winmain_beta2_x64fre_client-LB2CxFRE_EN_DVD.iso): e43502d0a15eadd551119d5639859e04