As an Infrastructure Engineer I am Infuriated!

[Switchback]

Hello,

Could you change the B in the MB when an upgrade to the game is downloading to a little b?

Every time I see it hit 90 MB/Sec I keep thinking I've had a free massive upgrade to my fibre connection and I come over all unnecessary unnecessarily.

Cheers!

 

[Switchback]

You sure this is the right place to ask for that? And are you sure it's even ED that does it? My download speeds are displayed as kilobytes/second when I get an update, and they are accurate. Maybe you did something funky to your settings somewhere?

I've no idea if it's the right place to ask it to be honest.

It definitely showed at +90MB/sec which seems a bit strong. I'll screen cap it and find the right forum to post it in. To be honest, I'm not really bothered at all, but I rarely make a post, so I thought I'd make it seem a bit shouty, about nothing. I've added a smiley at the end to make sure people realise I'm not really infuriated about anything

 

[Pile_O_Gunz]

You can write a c app to solve the problem or pinvoke in .net.
Use FindWindowEx function from the windows api to get the window handle.
Use EnumChildWindows another winapi method to find the window handle of the label containing "MB" within the parent window.
GetTeXt on the label handle will get you the text. You can then process the string it to convert to the correct case.
use SendMessage to set the label text to the label with the correct 'b'
Register your app as a window service that constantly searches for the appropriate window.

its totally worth the effort it's been bugging me too.

 

[CMDR Weatherwax]

You sure this is the right place to ask for that? And are you sure it's even ED that does it? My download speeds are displayed as kilobytes/second when I get an update, and they are accurate. Maybe you did something funky to your settings somewhere?

This is one of those things that is utterly infuriating. Everyone knows MB is a megabyte, but download speeds are measured in megabits (I think, but alcohol is currently in progress) which means that when a broadband provider says you get 10 meg connection per minute it doesn't mean a 10MB download will take a minute, I forget the exact conversion but from memory its about 1/8

 

[Switchback]

Hahah

Seems like a lot of effort to me, besides, as an Infrastructure Engineer I only know Powershell ;-)

 

[Robert Maynard]

Hello,

Could you change the B in the MB when an upgrade to the game is downloading to a little b?

Every time I see it hit 90 MB/Sec I keep thinking I've had a free massive upgrade to my fibre connection and I come over all unnecessary unnecessarily.

Cheers!

Try verifying the game files and time it then compare the observed rate, the time and the size of the product folder - I think the display is correct when it uses MB/sec.

When the upgrade process skips files (that do not need to be updated), it seems to show a massively increased rate of progress and when downloading files it is the same as the download speed (expressed as MB/sec, of course).

 

[SnugglySocks]

As an infrastructure engineer, you should be more concerned with the lack of sensible clustering and load balancing of the ed servers, which forces them to take the entire system down for an update rather than removing a server from rotation, upgrading it and then putting it back into rotation allowing current sessions to conclude before routing new traffic to the upgraded servers.

Besides, Everyone knows that in ED that download rate stands for Money Bags. How much they are currently being downloaded from the players.

 

[Vandaahl]

If the world starts worrying about the difference between MB and Mb, than all the other things are pretty much solved. I guess thats a good thing.

 

[Switchback]

This is one of those things that is utterly infuriating. Everyone knows MB is a megabyte, but download speeds are measured in megabits (I think, but alcohol is currently in progress) which means that when a broadband provider says you get 10 meg connection per minute it doesn't mean a 10MB download will take a minute, I forget the exact conversion but from memory its about 1/8

yeah it's 8 bits to a byte, so my 70 meg fibre is, (when my alcohol confusion clears up) a max of about 8 MB a sec(I'll not clutch at straws after 4 beers). I spend far too long working these things out all day, I might just stick a bit of masking tape over the monitor when there's an upgrade so I don't notice it ;-)

 

[deusx_ophc]

I've no idea if it's the right place to ask it to be honest.
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To be honest, I'm not really bothered at all, but I rarely make a post, so I thought I'd make it seem a bit shouty, about nothing. I've added a smiley at the end to make sure people realise I'm not really infuriated about anything

perfect post imo ^^ have some +rep!

 

[ocflyer]

Hello,

Could you change the B in the MB when an upgrade to the game is downloading to a little b?

Every time I see it hit 90 MB/Sec I keep thinking I've had a free massive upgrade to my fibre connection and I come over all unnecessary unnecessarily.

Cheers!

This is how an Elite Dangerous pilot spends time, writing incredibly trivial posts about upper-case vs lower-case letter B? FD has a million things more important to deal with.

 

[CMDR Weatherwax]

yeah it's 8 bits to a byte, so my 70 meg fibre is, (when my alcohol confusion clears up) a max of about 8 MB a sec(I'll not clutch at straws after 4 beers). I spend far too long working these things out all day, I might just stick a bit of masking tape over the monitor when there's an upgrade so I don't notice it ;-)

If you're drinking beer through straws you have more than download speeds to worry about

 

[Switchback]

As an infrastructure engineer, you should be more concerned with the lack of sensible clustering and load balancing of the ed servers, which forces them to take the entire system down for an update rather than removing a server from rotation, upgrading it and then putting it back into rotation allowing current sessions to conclude before routing new traffic to the upgraded servers.

Besides, Everyone knows that in ED that download rate stands for Money Bags. How much they are currently being downloaded from the players.

Hmn, probabaly better to big bang the servers and clients than have clients refuse to connect to upgraded servers and vice versa because you can't depend on how fast peoples connections will pull down an update, then have timeouts till they find a compatible server and have a fourm full of complaints....... though at 90 MB a sec I'll be sorted eh!

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This is how an Elite Dangerous pilot spends time, writing incredibly trivial posts about upper-case vs lower-case letter B? FD has a million things more important to deal with.

Cor chill out mate, it was meant tongue in cheek!

 

[ocflyer]

Hmn, probabaly better to big bang the servers and clients than have clients refuse to connect to upgraded servers and vice versa because you can't depend on how fast peoples connections will pull down an update, then have timeouts till they find a compatible server and have a fourm full of complaints....... though at 90 MB a sec I'll be sorted eh!

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Cor chill out mate, it was meant tongue in cheek!

Ah - an attempt at humor with a heavy side-dose of sarcasm. Peace. I purged myself of sarcasm decades ago as it only got me in trouble!

 

[CMDR Weatherwax]

Deleted - Complete and utter quote fail

 

[Aeos]

Hello,

Could you change the B in the MB when an upgrade to the game is downloading to a little b?

Every time I see it hit 90 MB/Sec I keep thinking I've had a free massive upgrade to my fibre connection and I come over all unnecessary unnecessarily.

Cheers!

It's displaying correct speeds. When you see a jump like that the launcher is also taking into account local files it is moving around.

 

[Switchback]

I would be wildly clutching at straws if I had 4 beers through straws :-D

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Ah - an attempt at humor with a heavy side-dose of sarcasm. Peace. I purged myself of sarcasm decades ago as it only got me in trouble!

Are you entirely sure you purged that sarcasm? ;-)

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It's displaying correct speeds. When you see a jump like that the launcher is also taking into account local files it is moving around.

Ah I see, so it's completely checking local files which means my read speed on the local disk is 90MB a sec. Makes sense, and makes me realise I need to have a tidy up