Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Installer Download Problems

My main computer is OSX and I use Firefox or Chrome.   I think I was 
using Firefox on OSX when I had the download problems on OSX.  The 
Windows computer was also using Chrome and/or Firefox.

On 10/5/13 7:46 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Which web-browser were you using to download with?  It seems a few 
> people have had problems with Internet Explorer and 1 had trouble with 
> Firefox.  The Firefox one turned out to be some problem with a company 
> firewall as the download worked just fine from outside.  Did you use 
> IE at both locations before trying the Torrent at home?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
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> *From:* Michael Reich <reich.mikey@gmail.com>
> *To:* users@global.libreoffice.org
> *Sent:* Saturday, 5 October 2013, 19:37
> *Subject:* [libreoffice-users] LO Installer Download Problems
>
> I didn't catch all of the recent posts about trouble downloading the LO
> installer (and the thread apparently got highjacked to another topic),
> but I posted something similar a month or so ago.  I had repeatedly
> tried downloading the Windows installer and constantly got corrupted
> installer files.  I am on high speed broadband and never had issues
> downloading other installers, including the OSX LO installer.  I had
> also tried downloading the windows installer at a local charity at which
> I volunteer, which has very slow internet. That was spectacularly
> unsuccessful also.
>
> I finally was able to download at home using a torrent file.  It seems
> to me that there has to be something funky about the LO windows
> installers that make downloading so difficult.  I imagine casual users
> of LO aren't going to try to download the darn file repeatedly in order
> to get a good download.
>
>
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