What is the difference between the two NI update links?

[nathannfm]

Well I should hope the "downloader" isn't actually 800MB because thst would kind of defeat the purpose... Im guessing the file size and MD5 are a copy/paste error.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by nathannfm

Well I should hope the "downloader" isn't actually 800MB because thst would kind of defeat the purpose... Im guessing the file size and MD5 are a copy/paste error.

The file size and MD5 are of the completed download (the same in both cases) and not of the .exe utility itself.

[FrankJ]

The downloader is much smaller than the update. Not 808 Meg's. As Mark said it is really more useful for large files.

Ahh! Again.

[AlexNeedsAName]

Sorry if it was unclear, this was a joke. For some reason both the downloader and the "direct link" link to the downloader. I was just poking fun at the fact they said it was different when in fact they linked to the same file.

[FrankJ]

One says it is an .exe and the other is a .zip? Those are different files.

[AlexNeedsAName]

Sorry, when you aren't logged in they link to the same place.

1: http://lumen.ni.com/nicif/US/GB_NIDU...-2016/6492/en/

2: http://lumen.ni.com/nicif/US/GB_NIDU...-2016/6492/en/

When you are logged in they do actually go to separate files.

1: http://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/fi...downloader.exe

2: http://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/fi...e_2017.0.0.zip