Really really disappointed
- Thread starter dominicbeesley
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I would suggest this may have more to do with your service provider than Frontier, Frontier use Amazon cloudfront to distribute content, and this comprises numerous servers all around the world.
To date it has been flawless for me, the entire Horizons update took little more than 20 minutes here in the UK, and that was within minutes of it’s release when everyone was trying to download it. While others milage does vary, it has as much to do with the numerous servers between you and the content delivery service, as anything else. Further, it is the start of the Holiday period where average loads will be higher than normal across the entire internet, as folks sit at home accessing the many online services, and as such there is nothing Frontier can do about it.
Also fwiw “You pays your money, you takes your chance” is an English proverb
To date it has been flawless for me, the entire Horizons update took little more than 20 minutes here in the UK, and that was within minutes of it’s release when everyone was trying to download it. While others milage does vary, it has as much to do with the numerous servers between you and the content delivery service, as anything else. Further, it is the start of the Holiday period where average loads will be higher than normal across the entire internet, as folks sit at home accessing the many online services, and as such there is nothing Frontier can do about it.
Also fwiw “You pays your money, you takes your chance” is an English proverb
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Correct me if I'm wrong but your complaining because you have to download and update things? am I being stupid?
I have a friend who used to play fine on 2mb BT broadband and others on various connections from standard broadband to fibre. I've only ever had poor downloads and speeds during big patches. I kicked off an install on my work laptop this morning from a work office and got 4mb a second and then finished at home and got 4mb again.
Only poor speed I had was during Horizons launch lowest 300K a sec at one point but the day after between 3mb and 6mb a second on home gaming PC.
I have a friend who used to play fine on 2mb BT broadband and others on various connections from standard broadband to fibre. I've only ever had poor downloads and speeds during big patches. I kicked off an install on my work laptop this morning from a work office and got 4mb a second and then finished at home and got 4mb again.
Only poor speed I had was during Horizons launch lowest 300K a sec at one point but the day after between 3mb and 6mb a second on home gaming PC.
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Sincerely think the issue is completely on your end. In one year, not a chance to play? Not even updating new patches/updates?
you could get a steam key, much faster in this respect.
Surely someone could just upload their copy of the game files to a file hosting service, you download and plonk them in the Elite folder and I have thought the game would see if there are file differences and work/download updates?
I don't believe for a second this is a Frontier related problem because thousands of us all play the game and update it weekly. Where are you based, who is your provider and whats your connection speed upload and download?
I don't believe for a second this is a Frontier related problem because thousands of us all play the game and update it weekly. Where are you based, who is your provider and whats your connection speed upload and download?
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pro tip,
launch the patcher a day before you plan to play and let it update overnight.
launch the patcher a day before you plan to play and let it update overnight.
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You should report this. I've not had any problems with downloading on a 22Mbp/s and 66Mbp/s connections, both of which are Plusnet provided.
Yes do this. Activate elite on steam and it'll just always be kept up to date in the background as long as you start steam with Windows.
Everytime there's a patch people are moaning and I'm just having a blast flying round the galaxy.
any mmo company tunes their patch servers for average load, not spike load. download times will be slower on the day of a major release because gobs of people are downloading it simultaneously. that's just life.
It's been nearly a year since I got a chance to play and today I've finally got a day off work with no family commitments and want to have a go on horizons. The files have been syncing for 1.5 hours and have 3 hours to go so that's that: no Elite for me.
I was an early backer of this project and did play quite a bit at first but got increasinglyoff with the constant need to update and the hopeless sync speeds. I've paid a lot of money for very little joy and feel very let down. I have several friends who have said the same, mixed reviews of the game play but all have given up due to the
The downloader needs abandoning and some decent bandwidth obtaining for straight non p2p nonsense downloading. I have neither the time nor the patience for this.
Updates should be that - why do we need to constantly re download the whole bloody thing for a few code tweaks
The game is locked down by having to log in why cant you release the major downloads and patches to mirror sites
Dom
I does not understand? Updates aren't that frequent and they dunt take very long on my internet. UK with 158smeg connection.
Well, i wonder the same, because I'm on a slow connection 20/1 MB and my DL is very fast. max 1 hour for the complete DL.
I tried to connect to our company connection 1Gb and that was even worse, so its a mystery for me too.
You don't. The game updates only what it needs to update. You could see that with the minor update removing the version banner. The 64bit version being an exception because it's EXTRA. Having 32 and 64bit side by side is calling for trouble and upgrading the 32bit to 64bit would have excluded players from the game.
Because you are downloading from two different CDN regions. Europe has by far the most players and FD didn't rent enough bandwidth. That's why many in the EU had ridiculous download speeds on launch day while some other fellas in different regions sucked the entire package in a couple of minutes.
I'm not entirely familiar with how Amazon splits it. But London and Dubai are certainly not in the same region. Dunno if Europe is a region or if that's split as well.
It's been nearly a year since I got a chance to play and today I've finally got a day off work with no family commitments and want to have a go on horizons. The files have been syncing for 1.5 hours and have 3 hours to go so that's that: no Elite for me.
I was an early backer of this project and did play quite a bit at first but got increasingly
The downloader needs abandoning and some decent bandwidth obtaining for straight non p2p nonsense downloading. I have neither the time nor the patience for this.
Updates should be that - why do we need to constantly re download the whole bloody thing for a few code tweaks
The game is locked down by having to log in why cant you release the major downloads and patches to mirror sites
Dom
From what I can tell, moving your game to Steam would fix these issues. I had the same problems. Steam's platform infinitely improves the download times and automatically keeps games up to date.
I can't speak for FD releasing updates as large as the full game (I have no idea if the do this or not). Regardless, the better speeds Steam offers would likely offset this a bit. I'm consistently at 4MB/sec or more, and I'm far from having the best internet connection.
Precisely, I can drive faster on a one lane road in the middle of nowhere whereas I'm stuck going 5 mph on an 8 lane freeway in the city, it's where the traffic is, and it gets to the point that no matter how much resource they try to allocate to the hotspots, it just gets too hot.
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This will depend, it took me 5 minutes to download it from Frontier and over half an hour to download it from steam (neither of which are bad, but Frontier's was significantly faster), but it will depend for steam just like it does for Frontier: where you are, what the traffic is like.
