Over the last two days I have done the following testing:

Limiting myself to hosts that show up in searches with 4 stars and a connection speed of Cable, T1 or T3 I have tried 232 downloads. Out of the 232 I attempted only 2 started at all. All others showed the "Could Not Download" message.

These tests were done from three different connections. A T1 with no firewall, a dial-up ISP with no user firewall and a cable connection with no user firewall. The attempts were split almost evenly between versions 2.1.3 and 1.7c. Both machines were Macs running system 9.2.1.

This seems a bit extreme does it not? Less than 1% success.


Ryan