von Luck Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Why on god's green earth does my download cap @ 600 Kb/s. Two friends with equally capable internet finished the download in less than 15 minutes. Mine is clocking at 3 hours ............ whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Welcome to the cloud. You're probably looking at a combination of multiple different download sites combined with a sudden spike in download activity. It went from nobody downloading the game to EVERYBODY downloading the game like *that* (snaps fingers). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIATpunk Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 6 minutes ago, von Luck said: whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Luxury! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Luck Posted April 7, 2016 Author Share Posted April 7, 2016 I must gush great tears of first world grief. Listening to them play is physically painful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wadepm Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 I have about 17 minutes left. Of course it has said that for the last 20 minutes. Sometime tonight I will have it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 The cloud is a mysterious thing. We let the files propagate for several days so we wouldn't run into the problem we've run into with past releases. Namely the files being in one farm and not having been moved around the world (which is how the cloud gets people speed). What we've discovered is that the very large file sizes causes inbetween services some heartburn. Meaning, User 1 and User 2 have the same theoretical bandwidth, but something between the server and User 1 throttles the speed while User 2 has no such problem. In particular we've noticed *most* of the speed throttling happens to our Australian customers. "Poor baaaaastads!" is a good phrase for them However, we've had people in metropolitan US areas, like outside of Baltimore and even someone in Silicon Valley, that had problems, so it isn't an Aussie thing only. Generally the speed throttling seems to be consistent. If User 1 falls victim to it for Game A, it's usually the same deal with Game B provided both are fairly large (larger than 4-5 GB seems to be when things get dicey). While this is not good, obviously, it was far worse in the past when we had smaller files but only 1-2 dedicated server. We'd never survive with that sort of arrangement again. Steve P.S. as a guy who is lucky to get 1mbs and has a 10gb monthly cap, I can't say that I'm overly sympathetic on a personal level. Then again, I don't live in the wilderness because I want a fast internet connection 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIATpunk Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 regardless of speeds, beats the hell out of waiting for the postman. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nercon Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 1 hour ago, Battlefront.com said: The cloud is a mysterious thing. We let the files propagate for several days so we wouldn't run into the problem we've run into with past releases. Namely the files being in one farm and not having been moved around the world (which is how the cloud gets people speed). What we've discovered is that the very large file sizes causes inbetween services some heartburn. Meaning, User 1 and User 2 have the same theoretical bandwidth, but something between the server and User 1 throttles the speed while User 2 has no such problem. In particular we've noticed *most* of the speed throttling happens to our Australian customers. "Poor baaaaastads!" is a good phrase for them However, we've had people in metropolitan US areas, like outside of Baltimore and even someone in Silicon Valley, that had problems, so it isn't an Aussie thing only. Generally the speed throttling seems to be consistent. If User 1 falls victim to it for Game A, it's usually the same deal with Game B provided both are fairly large (larger than 4-5 GB seems to be when things get dicey). While this is not good, obviously, it was far worse in the past when we had smaller files but only 1-2 dedicated server. We'd never survive with that sort of arrangement again. Steve P.S. as a guy who is lucky to get 1mbs and has a 10gb monthly cap, I can't say that I'm overly sympathetic on a personal level. Then again, I don't live in the wilderness because I want a fast internet connection I am in San Francisco and I'm trapped at 600kb speed too And other 3 hrs to go then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzersaurkrautwerfer Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 So is anyone else having it just stay at 0.0/5.7 GB and going into the 12-15 hour range? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGarner Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 (edited) Glad I checked my link to see what you all were talking about downloading. Yahhoo! You all at Battlefront are tricksy! Edited April 7, 2016 by TGarner 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc844 Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 You lucky baaaaarstards. Another 19 days to go out in the middle of the north Sea on a lump of steel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Luck Posted April 7, 2016 Author Share Posted April 7, 2016 3 hours later and my installer is throwing errors and wont complete. P-P-P-P-P-Perfect! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offshoot Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 3 hours ago, PIATpunk said: Wha...? Ohhhhhhhhhhh... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIATpunk Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 3 hours ago, Offshoot said: Wha...? Ohhhhhhhhhhh... It turned me into a newt! ... ...I got better.... .... and I got the game within 4 hrs, so it got better as well! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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