Update Congestion

[Gropitou]

Instead of things improving over time, SE has mastered the art of screwing up things that were'nt broken (kinda).

Why keep making updates that are so huge they take 12hrs and cause congestion for 2-3 days? WAKE UP!!!

[Zumi]

Instead of things improving over time, SE has mastered the art of screwing up things that were'nt broken (kinda).

Why keep making updates that are so huge they take 12hrs and cause congestion for 2-3 days? WAKE UP!!!

I wouldn't call 88 mb huge.

[Habu]

It's funny that the two people you are worshiping are the two people who created the top two bots for HNM lol

[Komori]

No lag for me. But only 650 people have been able to get on and it's 4:30 PM lol

[Zumi]

Well I just downloaded it took 5 min to download. I downloaded it at 1:30pm PST. I see you guys were having like problems at 4 AM PST, do you really got to play FFXI that early in the morning when like all the JP players are trying to download it? There is the problem.

[Komori]

Maybe that was the problem in the morning, but people are still having trouble at 12~5 in the afternoon.

[Dragoy]

I think it's worth mentioning that getting them files from a third-party might not be as safe as people make it seem (you know the internet, malicious stuff lurks everywhere!). I certainly would not recommend it to someone not knowing anything about what they're doing.

I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but strictly speaking it probably is a violation of the User Agreement et al., to distribute the game files like that (can't remember fer sure, and I'm not going to check right now), and same goes for 'DAT mining'. Sure, it's been going on for ages and seems like SqEX doesn't care, but it's worth acknowledging, methinks.

Then again, I'm also very paranoid when it comes to account security and such, which is one reason to never using them cheats. That, and preferring to play myself and by them rules. ^^;

Just my opinion, of course~


For those like me with multiple PCs (or other systems), it can indeed be handy to find all the tmp2 files. You would also want to preserve the directories (can't remember how to do that in windoze, but it's very easy to do on Linux (SPONsor!)).

Though as I mentioned before, for me example, it doesn't really speed up the process since any system would get 0-30~ KiB/s which is rather ridonkulous (this is what I always get, congestion or no congestion).


Any ways...

Congestion should be done fer now. I was excited about making many AF+1, especially since it took somewhere around 10 runs to get one certain item, but after logging in, I noticed I must have given the OTHER item to the goblin whose box gives absolutely nothing useful ever, remembering the item was for another job...

Oh well, seeing Sagheera is M.I.A. for a time, it's not even an issue. ^^;


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Play safe,
Cake tare~

[Camiie]

Why do people come on here blaming the users when the problem is obviously on SE's end? I was still getting a few POL errors more than 12 hours after the maintenance ended even after using the download from blugartr. Also, "early in the morning" doesn't apply to everyone the same as it does you. For some that is their playtime whether due to their schedule or their time zone.

I don't get how anyone can defend SE on this and blame the users. Even if you didn't have problems downloading, wouldn't you still be for any improvements that can be made? Do you really think the same people that design your in-game content are the ones who'd be working on improving the update system? Do you really think SE would be financially ruined if they put resources toward this?

[wildsprite]

the congestion is indeed an issue SE has yet to address, they could easily fix it on the PC by making it a torrent, and allowing users to share it, or they could change POL Viewer to have a Torrent client in it to relieve congestion(you being able to control the bandwidth of course) also giving you the choice to save the updates for later use in case you need to reinstall, I'm sure there are solutions that could be done, I just think SE has no intention, very little about what they are planning for the future of XI is worth getting excited about at the moment

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

the congestion is indeed an issue SE has yet to address, they could easily fix it on the PC by making it a torrent, and allowing users to share it, or they could change POL Viewer to have a Torrent client in it to relieve congestion(you being able to control the bandwidth of course)

It'd work on PCs, but it'd probably never pass muster on consoles. PS2 probably couldn't handle the multitasking (meaning that it'd only seed the torrent while in POV itself), and Microsoft doesn't even let software open port 80.

As for “Torrent client in it to relieve congestion(you being able to control the bandwidth of course)”, can you do that with FFXIV? If you don't know, the answer is: no(.)

The XIV update is P2P. I don't know if it's BitTorrent proper under the hood, but players do seed updates to other players while downloading themselves.