Hello, fellow PICers...

   I've been trying to download MPLAB 3.09.02 from Microchip's WWW site.  I
've tried downloading four different times, two different nights.  Each time,
the download terminates after approximately seven minutes.  Seems to be time
based, rather than number-of-bytes-downloaded based.  Not enough time for me
to get the entire file.

   My question is -
     Do others have this problem, and if not, what's the fix??

   A somewhat related question - Do other people besides me get consistently
slow transfer rates??  I average between 100 and 400 bytes/sec from
Microchip, whereas I often get 1.4 to 1.7 k from other sites.  Perhaps they
could do a "mirror" site on the East Coast?

   And _also_ 8^), I can no longer get at Microchip's BBS via Compuserve.  It
refers me to ftp to mchipbbs.microchip.com .  When I use Netscape or
Netcruiser to go there, my browser crashes (I think this is related to the
non-existence of such an ftp site.)  Ans thoughts??

Enuf for now - thanx for listening  8^)

Shel Michaels
sbmichaels@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/sbmichaels