An alternate download location for update?
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In the Launcher - hit Options and tick Alternative Download Method.
It's worth a try.
It's worth a try.
i did that long ago - it cut my download estimate from 4 days to 10 hours~... currently im going in between a whopping 0.30/s and 0.10/s....
Main reason I redeemed a Steam key when Frontier made the game available on Steam as well. Major revisions are distributed as client updates to Steam rather than just having to use Frontiers launcher.
yeah i am considering that too. i dont want to give a cut of all my purchases from frontier to go to steam, but these download speeds are just unbearable.
if the speed goes on like this i may just end up doing that. but im still looking for other ways to go around these speeds yet...
What methods can FD use to improve update download speed?
I suggested a pause and continue later download button like what Steam has for more ease of use but to be honest after witnessing the horrendously unoptimised download progress of 2.2 - and how it took almost as long to download as something like The Witcher 3 (38GB) from steam - I'm starting to put serious thought into jumping ship to accessing ED through steam.
I suggested a pause and continue later download button like what Steam has for more ease of use but to be honest after witnessing the horrendously unoptimised download progress of 2.2 - and how it took almost as long to download as something like The Witcher 3 (38GB) from steam - I'm starting to put serious thought into jumping ship to accessing ED through steam.
Without sounding cheeky - are there any open wifi access points nearby that wont be on the same ISP?
p2p is a choice. for example blizzard uses p2p to distribute everything to great success. since a long while. that could work for FD as well.
If you purchased from Frontier, then activating a Steam Key should not cost Frontier anything. Buy through Steam, well obviously they would take their cut.
I primarily use Steam for ED now due to the download speeds too.
i read a thread regarding that, and it says that doing that will indeed cost FD money:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/148965-Elite-Dangerous-Steam-Keys
Interesting, I know from other games that generating keys for Steam doesn't cost anything, so must be due to them running their own store too.
Well, either way I still think Steam is the way to go until Frontier sort out the download capacity/speed issues.
well...
to avoid steam getting 30% cut from what i give to FD so FD can have it all, i am going to write off today's gaming session and just leave incredibly slow ED launcher to download the game.
possibly it will finish downloading until the morning.
what can you do....
anyway thanks to everybody who tried to help with pointers.
to avoid steam getting 30% cut from what i give to FD so FD can have it all, i am going to write off today's gaming session and just leave incredibly slow ED launcher to download the game.
possibly it will finish downloading until the morning.
what can you do....
anyway thanks to everybody who tried to help with pointers.
It might be worth a call to your ISP and ask why your throughput is so low 
Even on my 30/10 Concast link - who are one of the biggest bandwidth thieves in the USA - all my downloads completed in a reasonable time.
Even on my 30/10 Concast link - who are one of the biggest bandwidth thieves in the USA - all my downloads completed in a reasonable time.
It might be worth a call to your ISP and ask why your throughput is so low
Even on my 30/10 Concast link - who are one of the biggest bandwidth thieves in the USA - all my downloads completed in a reasonable time.
im in Europe and my isp is otherwise functioning normally. videos, other downloads are fine. i ran a test on speedtest.net, and it comes up within the ISP specs and what we are paying for.
its only ED downloader which is slow.
now this may be due to FD's CDN screwing my locale (spain) or having particular issues with my provider, that's another story. but i dont think setting up a VPN just for that would be wise at this point.
downloader says anything from 3 to 5 hours, and ill just go to bed. tomorrow is another day.
still, thanks.
It's entirely possible. Some ISP's have special tiering deals, and delightfully throw preferred traffic to their favourite peers. Others just love to stomp on anything that could conceivably be pirated material and route all their P2P traffic through Nowhereistan on a single channel ISDN line.
in europe things arent like that. hard net neutrality and all that.
as for jazztel (the isp) they are pretty ahead in the hip curve of things.
not that i had any kind of issue with ED's downloader up until this point - when i first downloaded the game, or when i returned to the game after a year or so and downloaded massive patches.
this seems particular to today.
just one day anyway. if it persists with subsequent downloads, i may try a VPN and see. but that's a long way until the next big patch or content update.
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Yes but don't go with free vpns.It should be avoided. I remember when I used free VPNs but then I knew that they are not safe, they earn by either showing ads or by selling users' data. In both the cases, the main reason of using a VPN dies. Now, I am using PureVPN. Far better than free VPNs.