extreme slow download
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i dont know how my ISP is routing until my home router. But i am not in the US so i think thats the problem. How can i pick a server in the launcher? i did look for mirrors but couldnt select one. I didnt know i was connecting to US actually. What about the game itself? Will i connect to a closer server?
This is an old video but it explains how the system works for Elite - basically, when playing the game you just periodically update from the servers for "instance" information for example, your playing is not carried out "on a server" but in a peer-to-peer network (even in Solo). The video explains it:
Actual downloading of the game on installation and upgrading is different and can seem to take forever to start and then suddenly it will romp home at your full ISP capability - which AWS server you get connected to for those downloads I assume is what determines that. (Steam-based players seem to have more reliably fast downloads but that is just my observation, don't know if it is true.)
Thank you! nice video! in time i will watch it fully but right now i forwarded it a bit. Funny at 44:36 he says 'it gives a really consistent download experience'
for me a whooping 0.10mb/s
i think you are right about speeding up somewhere. I went out and somehow the download went from 6 days ETA to complete in 6 hours.
I did try to download on Steam and i did get full 36MB/s speed but that was just a short moment of fun because after that the launcher forced me to download Odyssey again at 0.10MB/s. I guess Steam only installs the base game.
for me a whooping 0.10mb/s i think you are right about speeding up somewhere. I went out and somehow the download went from 6 days ETA to complete in 6 hours.
I did try to download on Steam and i did get full 36MB/s speed but that was just a short moment of fun because after that the launcher forced me to download Odyssey again at 0.10MB/s. I guess Steam only installs the base game.
Thank you! nice video! in time i will watch it fully but right now i forwarded it a bit. Funny at 44:36 he says 'it gives a really consistent download experience'
i think you are right about speeding up somewhere. I went out and somehow the download went from 6 days ETA to complete in 6 hours.
I did try to download on Steam and i did get full 36MB/s speed but that was just a short moment of fun because after that the launcher forced me to download Odyssey again at 0.10MB/s. I guess Steam only installs the base game.
Also note that major updates are being rolled out today so of course you have the whole download fun to experience again. (I am "upgrading" at the moment - the Horizons one was fast.).
I won't mention the inevitable patches to be downloaded in the coming days too.
Good luck
Happy to report that both downloads were pretty fast, Horizons obviously smaller download but the Oddity one was not too bad.
P.S. I Just started Steam (which has a separate Elite Dangerous account) and that downloaded the update like lightning, I mean super fast.
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