Thank you for suggesting I ought to have asked Magix support, I did but got no reply. I also googled the issue of slow download speed for Magix products and discovered that I was not the only person affected by this problem. Other people had similar experiences... back in 2018. I have no idea what is causing the throttling but I did spend the last 4 days downloading SOUND FORGE Audio Cleaning Lab 2, SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 14, the iZotope plugins and MusicMaker. All downloads were uniformly slow. I do not have this issue with any other website, which means that I do have enough room on my 2 terabyte HDD. If my ISP or firewall or antivirus program were the cause of slow speed then I imagine all other websites would be slow for me as well. My actual broadband speed averages around 46mbps. In all honesty I have no idea what the issue could be. When I finally installed MusicMaker I clicked on the update link and the update files transferred at lightning speed of under one minute. Observation? Direct link to files appears to be working perfectly well, the files redirected via the special loader do not work well for every customer. Food for thought?