I guess everyone is trying to download Quartus 3.0 at once during daytime. The file weights 137MB and has just been released, so a busy server is understandable today. I got it late last night and the download was very fast. As for Ethernet adapters, nobody likes to jump into hoops to get a software running, but it's not so bad to buy a cheap Ethernet card, and I guess they want to keep their licensing options open.
I have not been having a good day (weekend actually) trying to download
> the Altera web edition software. Large downloads like this normally
> take three or so tries to get the full file.
>
> But I find that I am not able to get a license file anyway. I don't
> have an Ethernet adapter in the PC where I will be running the tools and
> the web site is not set up for anything else. So what do I need to do
> to get running with quartus web edition?
>
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