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18 years ago

Suggestion : Enhance Download Opportunies for Altera Installation files

Depending on the customer, I am working for, I often suffer from restrictions of the given PC especially the (im-)possibility to install active-X plugins. So it is not possible to e.g. install Altera...
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18 years ago

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Get it off Altera's ftp site

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The ftp site is: ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release

It has both the latest and old versions and service packs.

But I agree with the download issue. 1.5 Gb of download is just huge. They should have a location where they are chunked into 50 Mb files or so.

I sent a rather large rant to several people at Altera when they stopped shipping the DVD's. It's just insane to download the much junk every 3 months.

Pete