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Offline Major Biggles

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Do tell, why so slow?
« on: January 31, 2012, 11:19:10 PM »
Dear HTC...

I have wondered for years, why is your auto updater so ridiculously slow?! An average of 30 kb/s is a bit outdated even for a few years ago. Is there a reason the auto-update is so slow or is it purely there to sustain subsribers with slower connections?

Does everyone else get the same speeds as me through the game's auto update or is speed lost in translation when it's broadcast this side of the pond?
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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2012, 11:22:00 PM »
Auto is slower for me is well. I can manually DL very quickly and be playing much faster it seems.
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Offline wil3ur

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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2012, 11:22:13 PM »
I was getting a whopping 7KB a second the other day for the BIG release!!!  I decided to cancel and download from the website and got a 600KB per second...  Everything worked fine over the weekend for the first couple days of the new release.  This lastest patch fix did something and now the game is unplayable due to framerate freezes.
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Offline Major Biggles

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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2012, 11:30:39 PM »
I'm happy to hear I'm not the only person to get 1990's speeds from the game's auto-updater... Sorry about your freezes Wilbur, have not experienced any of the same.
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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2012, 11:43:48 PM »
I was looking at 30-40 minutes through the auto updater.  Went to the website and got it in 6-7 minutes.
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Offline Guppy35

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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2012, 11:49:33 PM »
Went quite fast for me.  Seemed to work fine.
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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2012, 11:50:00 PM »
Quote from: Major Biggles on January 31, 2012, 11:19:10 PM
is it purely there to sustain subsribers with slower connections?

how would that work then?  :headscratch:

always updates very speedily for me anyway
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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2012, 11:56:53 PM »
went fast for me.  :headscratch:
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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2012, 11:59:27 PM »
meh perhaps I live in the vortex. I have never seen more than 35 kb/s from the AH auto-updater, despite seeing FAR higher speeds on average for everything.
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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2012, 02:45:11 AM »
Quote from: Major Biggles on January 31, 2012, 11:59:27 PM
meh perhaps I live in the vortex. I have never seen more than 35 kb/s from the AH auto-updater, despite seeing FAR higher speeds on average for everything.

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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2012, 04:27:56 AM »
Maybe it's your ISP?



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Offline icepac

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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2012, 07:14:43 AM »
Maybe it has something to do with the many other people downloading at the exact same moment as you.
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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2012, 07:17:09 AM »
Quote from: icepac on February 01, 2012, 07:14:43 AM
Maybe it has something to do with the many other people downloading at the exact same moment as you.


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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2012, 07:20:15 AM »
Mine took almost an hour for the update through auto, I ddn't care as I had some shopping to do anyhow.
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Re: Do tell, why so slow?
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2012, 08:27:20 AM »
Might simply be an intentional bottleneck to lessen server strain. I think the HTTP downloads are on the secondary server, so they don't have that.
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