The FTP download is much much slower than the http one:
4.2 MB/s – 73.4 MB of 73.4 MB: http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.08/en_US/AdbeRdr11008_en_US.exe
119 KB/s – 24.6 MB of 73.4 MB: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.08/en_US/AdbeRdr11008_en_US.exe
This over the same 50 megabit fiber connection.
So basically you have to:
- Browse the ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x for a version in your language (en-US for intance has the youngest full install at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.10/en_US/ as younger versions only contain update MSP files, for instance in ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.16/misc/)
- Copy the download URL
- Replace the ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win with http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win (you cannot browse the latter as it genrates “Not Found; The requested URL /pub/adobe/reader/win/ was not found on this server.”)
- Download the URL that you just assembled
–jeroen
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