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Red Dragon
20th October 2007, 11:15 AM
I downloaded some game the other day
it said 1gig download, Firefox download manager did it in about 6 seconds.

Then the games software said I had to update the games itself. So it began downloading the update.

Here is the question - I'm on a 5Mbit connection and I was downloading at 512kb/s on the update and it took half an hour.

A) what size does that make the update
B) shouldn't I have been transfering faster
Dymond
20th October 2007, 01:17 PM
maybe it was a GB including the update?
Red Dragon
20th October 2007, 03:52 PM
maybe it was a GB including the update?

possibly

the other thing is I download a driver for my audio and it was only 17MB but took half an hour. WTF could cause it to be so slow

I was dowloading at less that 10kb/s
Grendel
20th October 2007, 06:11 PM
The problem with downloads is people forget that it's not your download speed that's the problem... It's the upload speed of the server you download from. If thousands of people are all using it at the same time, you're going to have problems.
Dymond
20th October 2007, 08:57 PM
The problem with downloads is people forget that it's not your download speed that's the problem... It's the upload speed of the server you download from. If thousands of people are all using it at the same time, you're going to have problems.

Thats the nail on the head.. Especially if its motherboard manufacturers..Those guys are extremely tight about bandwidth..
Vinay
20th October 2007, 11:17 PM
lol right on the DOT....

if their server has a good speed then it will let u download the max of their server speed.. it really depends on the other side..
the squid of despair
20th October 2007, 11:46 PM
What game was it?
Red Dragon
21st October 2007, 12:15 AM
What game was it?

Was entropia universe but I guess my video card is short on memory, lmao, its only 128MB. Says

"renderer creation error" reason: your video card may be low on memory please close other applications and try again. At first I thought I just needed to update drivers and reinstall direct X 9.0 but that didnt work either.
Dymond
21st October 2007, 06:10 PM
well hell your videocard is bleeding edge but I can't imagine the game would just crap out on you..I looked at the site.. My theory was the slowness was on their end..