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Download Issue -not Fileplanet
rejad
Member Posts: 346
***EDIT Solved my problem. Picked up a shareware program called NetLimiter and capped the downloader on its upload speed. Now my download speed is better. Staying above 100kps. Still sucks but beats the hell out of the 1kps it was hovering around before.
Alright, I'm thinking "forget this crap" right about now.
I got to be one of the 300 who won the beta key two days ago. Naturally I was happy because I want to try out this game and also because I've never really won anything useful in my life. So everything works like a charm until I start trying to download this behemoth. Now, I understand that the 13 or GB will take me a handful of days but this is really stupid.
I start the download with the installer from Funcom's site. It takes a few minutes to actually start downloading. It starts at about 200+kps, not great but not bad. It quickly drops to 100 for about 20 seconds, then to 50 for about a minute. Sometimes it will stay around 20-25 for five minutes, sometimes it goes straight to 1. In the end and always within 10 minutes, its down to 1 and below, eventually the speed drops so low it stops altogether and just sits there looking pretty. After nearly two days I'm still at 7% completed.
I then have to restart it. Which wouldn't be terrible if it wasn't for the fact that I would essentially have to be sitting in from of my machine for two days doing this. Actually it would probably take a lot longer because it takes a few minutes for it to start downloading again once you've stopped it. Mostly it hovers around 4-13kps which the downloader says will take about 9 weeks or so to finish, roughly 7 weeks after I can buy the damn box at Best Buy.
(excuse me, have to restart it again, there it goes, ah, back down to 9kps so soon, restart...)
I don't know if this game is the massive pile of donkey suck that so many of you claim it is. And at this rate, I might never know. I certainly don't want to spend good money on something whose merits are so heavily questioned without trying it first. Hell, I dunno if it'll even run alright on my machine yet. I've decided to just let it run without restarting and see if it will at some point, by magic I suppose, start downloading at a decent rate. Which is a pain because it eats up bandwith for some reason or another, I cannot figure out what its doing with it but all I know is that everything loads like dial-up with it running.
So in closing, SOE's games are an abomination. But I can now say something positive about them; at least I have a chance to play their games. Any suggestions or rituals that will make the TCP/IP gods look upon me with favor would be appreciated.
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The answer is simple: bittorent...
I already wrote about it here:
http://mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/1983830#1983830
If you are on DSL or cable connection, you suffer pretty much from others downloading from you, the more you upload, the slower your download speed will be.
So, find someone with ATM, transmission or such, syncronous internet connection, or use 3rd party soft to limit the upload, because if you block it totally, you'll not be able to download as well
Indeed Funcoms download manager is awful. I had to use this too.
The time it says it will take is actually badly calculated and is a lie. Myn was going at a steady 120-150kbps, which is slow for such a big game, but it got there in the end!
Leave it overnight etc and its fine. However the software clearly has a memory leak making it use more CPU after a couple of hours, however if you Pause then Resume the download its CPU usage drops back down to normal again, however this seems to occur every few hours. Also the download made my internet go slow annoyingly, thats why overnight sessions were the best option. How it made my net go slow whilst downloading slow itself is beyond me.
But overall when its finally done and your playing i'd say its worth it so far. Been on for about 2 hours and im really enjoying it.
Ah, would also explain why it eats up so much bandwith for doing seemingly little. I guess it also stands to reason that the longer I let it run it will eventually go faster. But still, I limit my upload speeds because it drops my performance when I'm torrenting, would be nice if I could do that with this. Thanks for the info.
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yeah I got a good portion of it downloaded last night but i woke up in queue again
. Hopefully after I get home from exams it will be downloading more.
Lol, i spent the $6 and signed up for fileplanet, got a beta key and dowloaded through fileplanet at 1.30 mbs. Took me 3 1/2 hours to download it.
$6 well spent to avoid aggrivation.
Yeah that would be nice but I don't have a Fileplanet key. *shrug*
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Ah, would also explain why it eats up so much bandwith for doing seemingly little. I guess it also stands to reason that the longer I let it run it will eventually go faster. But still, I limit my upload speeds because it drops my performance when I'm torrenting, would be nice if I could do that with this. Thanks for the info.
Picked up a program that lets me limit bandwith, seems to be working so far although its slowly dipping slower but staying above 100kps so far. Once again, thanks for the info.
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