anyone having luck "getting it early"?

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i logged onto the redhat network website around noon, and at that time 
discs 1 and 2 were downloading at 2.5 kb/s (!), disc 3 at 9 kb/s.

when i got home from work my transfers had failed.  you can't restart 
easily because the url's expire.  i know there's probably better ways to 
assure you can keep resuming (they HAD something about using curl on the 
instant iso page before but it looks like its gone), but _MY GOD_, didn't 
they KNOW there was going to be a rush today?

and this rush is from all of their PAYING customers, who are supposed to be 
"getting it early" (they sent out notices letting us know how lucky we 
were).  at this rate i _might_ have it just before i hits the ftp servers, 
and this is actually worse than being lumped in with the ftp masses, since 
i only have one server to choose from.

at this point, the rhn site says:


PLEASE NOTE: We are experiencing high volumes of traffic due to 
unprecedented demand for Red Hat Linux 9 ISOs. This is currently affecting 
our response time. Our engineering team is working to address this problem. 
Thank you for your patience. Feel free to send us questions or feedback.


i'm trying to download this for my work, using their rhn account.  i have 
been considering whether to purchase for myself at home, and this is 
exactly not the way to get me to do it.  i'm glad i didn't sign up just so 
that i could get it early (what their email was encouraging people to 
do.)  THEN i would be fuming.  as it is, i'm only whining :p

and for that i am sorry, but i was all psyched up for this, and i'm going 
nowhere fast... errrr slow. :)

maybe someone else is having better luck?


ron