This problem is not solved, install a mail client? thats is a usesless and out of context bit of info that has no obvious method of approach to a non techy. I havent a clue what that means in terms of real steps. I'm getting the communication failure message. I have disabled my firewall with no joy. Who ever marked this problem as solved is causing a huge amount of irritation to me and other users.... One comment below intimates its easyer to download the torrent version which is absurd if that is the case. I feel highly annoyed by this issue.
I am running windows 8 and everything else runs great. In windows 8 there is a built in app to connect your emails to the start page. Now if thats not a mail client what is? So I have a mail client that is permantly connected.(at least from a non techy point of view).
I have tried downloading the "download" manger and the "Install" option. The download manger downloads and installs and proceeds to ask me for a program, so I add the Autodesk_Revit_2013_English_Win_32_64bit_wi_en-US_Setup.exe at which point it produces the same error connection faliure message. So I have turned the firewall off and it doesnt work(connection faliure message)? I don't think it is the firewall since it normally asks if i want to block or not block a program. When I downloaded the download manger it asked me if I want to allow somthing which I definatly clicked allow. I have not tried the port 80 & 443 opening (I have no I dea how to do that?) as I have turned the firewall on & off(off while trying the download manager and the direct install). For the years I have been a student the autodesk forums have been full of incohernt and overly specific information without a context to apply it. Normally very simple questions are answered in a inappropriate fashion where the technical knowlege of the user is inadiquate to comprehend your solution. Is that beacuse the autodesk staff think we are wasting there time with insufficent information and incoherent questions that don't operate in the realm of your superior knowlege? I certainly feel that way. Are you there to help or just process?
