Slow version update

[Sureaboutthis]

Apologies if this is posted in the wrong place as this is more of a playonline problem than a game problem.

Platform: Windows
ISP: Canal Digital
Type of Internet Connection: CATV
Internet Connection Speed: 70Mbps
Date & Time: Des 11, 2011 21:43 GMT+1

The version update released 14/12 seem to download very slow.

This patch is 137.1MB for the windows version.

On my 70Mbps connection a bestcase download time would be about 15-16 seconds, instead it seems to be taking about 4-5 hours.
(the same speed a 56 Kbps modem would use to download this amount of data!)

Would it be possible to change the downloader to use a faster server or alternatively bittorrent?

FFXIV uses bittorrent for its laucher so SE obviously has the technology.

[Maranello]

Same for me and I'm on 100MB...

[RAIST]

it's more an issue with the connections in general--as in too many people pulling the download atm. Best I've gotten from most any server over there is a 6Mb stream on average during peak traffic (and I've been able to maintain upwards of 12Mb streams to closer sites). Granted, I don't do much pulling from the JP region, as most companies will have a regional server that is better to use.

14's torrent system was using P2P when I was in the beta...so you were using shared pooling amongst the players. That may require more of a change to the underlying structure of the POL system than they are willing to commit to. Would be great if they would do it...I just don't expect them to any time soon. We'd probably have better luck asking for offline regional download mirrors. Given enough time, a new package with the updated ROM's may be made available at one of the FFXI forum sites to that end.

[Meyi]

Are you new to FFXI and update time? The day of update is always the slowest to upload. If you were to wait a couple of days the speed would pick up tremendously.

[Sureaboutthis]

Point is that i pay 0 Euro per year to access youtube.com and can watch all the 1080p vids i want, while i pay about 155 Euro per year to play FFXI and still download at a trickle.

[Kaisha]

Given FFXI's current dev budget, and how they haven't upgrade their download pipelines over the past 8 years, I doubt we'll be seeing any changes for the foreseeable future.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

One thing they actually got right with XIV was P2P downloads.

[Kaisha]

One thing they actually got right with XIV was P2P downloads.

Only if you used a proper torrent client. XIV's 'official' one was absolutely horrendous on average connection speeds and it abused your upstream while it was at it, making web browsing or doing other online tasks a no-go while updating.

It's always one step forward, two steps back with this company. They don't know how to make PC games, and refuse to look at how other companies do their business as an example.

[Alhanelem]

The update is slow because a lot of people are downloading it. It's not a bug.

[MojoJojo]

Since i've been playing this game i've always considered "update day" a write-off. I've always found something else to do that day because its a bloody nightmare to update it and it's always been like that. SE has shown no interest in fixing the logjam, so you might as well find the closest wall and start shouting at it.