attrotious DL speeds

[Sezuel]

ok, I understand that it is early access and people are still downloading the game or downloading patches but come on ... 100KB/s ... Im running on a 2MB/s network with no one else on ... stop throttling the servers to horrendous speeds that make it take 7+hours to DL

[andyssolace]

same here. it was completely fine and speedy before early access. now it's just disgusting. plus i get errors now

[Sezuel]

Agreed ... I keep getting server not responding errors ever couple of files (btw I am REINSTALLING the entire game) and then the thing that lead me to this was the fact I was getting 11006 20641 20643 at 999.31MB/1035.90MB on the update ... nothing I have tried for it has fixed it ...and I've done everything short of putting myself in some other DNS (Which should NEVER have to happen) or reinstalling my OS entirely

[prestocatmad]

Must have something to do with your ISP's Route, I'm currently reinstalling the game due to a DirectX Error, seeing if that helps. I'm getting 1.4MB/s Sometimes drops to 0.6MB/s though. I'm on a 15Mbit ADSL connection so I'm pretty much maxing it out.

[Sezuel]

not seeing how it is an ISP route since this was working fine less than 24 hours ago ... unless they changed something when they were closed there is no way that the ISP could have fucked up that bad ..

[prestocatmad]

It's a possibility an ISPs route to the Datacenter could be saturated. I believe SE use Akamai Edgesuite for their CDN (Content Delivery Network) Services to serve the downloads. But a CDN is only as good as the ISPs Peering to it. I'm based in the UK, so my connection is currently going to 195.101.0.233 which is a CDN cache in France where I'm getting 1.4MB/s but before the load balancer kicked in, I was connected to 195.10.11.59 which is registered to a Network Operations Center in Leeds, UK. This is much closer since I only have to go through 9 Routers to get there as opposed to the 17 Routers. But my speed started to get about 0.2MB/s which is probably why I got switched to a different route server once the current file was completed.

This is just the nature of CDNs. SE don't run them, they just send the files to them they want distributed. You're probably getting the best speed for that route that's possible but SE aren't the bottleneck here. It's the ISPs between your home connection and the CDN Cache you're connecting to.

[icy1007]

Weird. I downloaded the game at 3.4 MB/s.

[Filthy]

My download speed is at 0.06mb, waste of time.