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Iso of buld 20282 brokern?
I have re-downloaded the iso from another machine, in another location, with another ISP. The broken iso I had downloaded was already deleted, so not way to check to checksum. The re-downloaded iso seems fine, I was able to burn it to DVD and install it on the test machine.
I have download3ed the 20285 build from the same computer I have downloaded the 20282, not my own machine and not my own ISP. For a few months now, I have issues with the ISP, unfortunately, I can not change it. Something goes wrong in the download process, the same thing happened for both 20282 and 20285 iso files. I remember that, back in the day, when I had downloaded the beta iso for Windows 7, Microsoft offered for install the Akamai Download Manager, that did the job well. Those days I have downloaded a large Linux VHDX (larger then the Windows Server Insider iso)using the BitTorrent protocol, having the Transmission BitTorrent client and it went fine. This shows that a download manager seems to be the solution, at least for now. Perhaps someone can recommend a good download manager that is also free of charge, to be able to download the Windows Server Insider iso, next time. Akamai Download Manager seems to have disappeared.
Radu Ilie which browser do you use Radu
- and what are the settings for internet options (no matter you are using IE or not)
- I would recommend to disable TLS 1.1 / TLS 1.0 and enable TLS 1.2 there.
- Do you use 3rd party AV? You might want to check your system with Malwarebytes (free version only) if there is really nothing that has compromised the system. It is a great companion to Microsoft Defender. I would not recommend to use MBAM full version as it gives me a lot of troubles with performance and webfilter often enough and replaces Defender.
- Otherwise if the image get corrupted I could only suspect deep packed inspection by a proxy or firewall.
However download managers are not necessary imho. I would like recommend to use the new Edge browser which is a giant leap over Download Microsoft Edge Browser | Microsoft
Thanks for more details on your scenario. if you don't mind please let me know your networking adapter you are using for the download and driver version screenshots from device manager would be great.
Microsoft Edge on the previous Windows Server vNext build failed to download the 20282 iso, as well as Firefox on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine, both my test machine for Windows Server vNext and the Ubuntu machine share the rooter and the same ip. I have tried to download 20285 on Firefox, on Ubuntu, I had the same checksum issue. In the last few months, I have noticed issues on my internet connection, the download speed decreased pretty much (FTP), but web navigation did not seemed to be much affected (HTTP). The Huawei HG658 rooter belongs to my ISP, it is not my property, I do not know how much I am allowed to tap into it and change it. The builds 20282 and 20285 were downloaded in another location, with a different ISP, different rooter type, and much better download speed. Something is wrong, I do not know where. If the connection fails, the only solution would be, as I see it, to get a download manager like the one from Akamai that I knew years ago. Perhaps the servers from Microsoft were not configured to take into account a strange technical situation like this. I do not know what is going on, what I know is that I can not download the iso from this page, previous builds could have been downloaded.
The Akamai Download Manager that know seems to be discontinued worked, partially, in a similar way to the BitTorrent protocol, meaning that it split the file to be downloaded into several pieces, downloaded them separately, then re-asambled them into one file. The success into downloading that very large Linux vhdx via BitTorrent, using Transmission as BitTorrent client shows that, in the situation, a download manager like the defunct one from Akamai would, most likely, do the trick. The download speed would still be slow but, once the file was downloaded, it would not be corrupted.
