Zippety-zip-zip-zip

So if you read yesterday's chapter of "How can Jason improve the download success of our users", and looked at the comments, you saw that I was all over trying to zip up the ISO and seeing if that saved space. Unfortunately, it looks like doing that would only shave about 1.7% from the total size of the download.

file	size in bytes	gain from compression
Feb CTP ISO	1,141,606,400	-
Feb CTP zip	1,122,130,957	1.70%
Feb CTP exe	1,122,200,699	1.70%

So I'm now moving to investigating download managers. I'll let you know what I find.

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 12, 2006
  Actually I'm using MetaProducts Download Express (it's free for personal usage) to download from MS Download site - it's very fast and supports resuming
• Anonymous
  April 26, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 01, 2006
  Joku, that's a good suggestion. Right now the only split in the docs is between Win32 and WinFX content, but we've talked about splitting the docs up more in the future. The web-based download is especially intriguing.