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Development release download speed

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Downloading now - it takes 10 minutes so it will be a little bit.
 
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Downloading now - it takes 10 minutes so it will be a little bit.
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Is the download constantly that slow? I know there was a thread about the scenerydesign.org website speed a while back, but I am not sure if it is always slow or just sometimes. The website is on my NAS, so I don't notice the speed myself. But I switched ISP a few months ago and I feel that might be related.
 
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Is the download constantly that slow? I know there was a thread about the scenerydesign.org website speed a while back, but I am not sure if it is always slow or just sometimes. The website is on my NAS, so I don't notice the speed myself. But I switched ISP a few months ago and I feel that might be related.
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Yes, it's always taken 8-12 minutes to download MCX for the past few months. Before that it was as fast as any other download.
 
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Yes, it's always taken 8-12 minutes to download MCX for the past few months. Before that it was as fast as any other download.
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Right, let me see what I can do about it. 10 minutes sounds like the speed from many yeara ago :)
 
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BTW, Firefox reports that the MCX download speed varies between 20-30 KB/sec. Downloading from flightsim.com is about 7 MB/sec.
 
That's really slow. I did a speed test and my upload speed is around 20 Mbit/s, so that should allow better speeds. But I guess something else interferes. I'll check.
 
I can confirm the slow download performance of the developer versions since quite some time, Arno.


Send from mobile hence short
 
I need to find a way to test it. When downloading from my phone it does not take 10 minutes, it was more around 1 minute.
 
I have made a few changes on the server now, can you let me know if it is faster this way?
 
That sounds better already. Let's wait for the experience of others.
 
Still 20-30 KB/sec for me... Estimated time is 10 minutes.

Only difference for me was that the download started at 50-60 KB/sec, then decreased to 20-30.
 
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Download speed is fine for me.
Just downloaded the latest release. Downloading at ~600 KB/s using Free Download Manager. Took about 2 min to download.

I do have a fat pipe.

Gavin
 
Really puzzling that there is such a big range between 20 and 600 kB/sec. On the other hand, with 600 kB/s it should take less than a minute to get the file, but that user also said it took about 2 minutes in total. So it seems the most optimal speed you all report is around 200 kB/sec. The connection that the server is on has a much bigger bandwidth (that is around 3.5 MB/sec). Let me see if I can figure out where the bottleneck for that is.
 
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Really puzzling that there is such a big range between 20 and 600 kB/sec. On the other hand, with 600 kB/s it should take less than a minute to get the file, but that user also said it took about 2 minutes in total. So it seems the most optimal speed you all report is around 200 kB/sec. The connection that the server is on has a much bigger bandwidth (that is around 3.5 MB/sec). Let me see if I can figure out where the bottleneck for that is.
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Arno, for me it always starts off anywhere from 100 to a few hundred KB/s, but drops to 50-60 within about 10 seconds. I feel like that's not unusual though, as I seem to remember a lot of servers starting off with a huge spike then stabilizing, or reporting slower speeds as the download is about to finish. Some of that could be location based since you are running it off of your own NAS.
 
Just downloaded the latest version. Firefox reported it to be 22.5 mb. The download took 6:48(mins: seconds) according to the stop watch on my phone. Firefox reported speeds from 38 kb/sec to a brief high of 72 kb/sec. Most of the time the speed was in the area of 40 to 55 kb/sec.

Ed
 
With the latest adjustments, avg is about 38 kb/sec for me. Though at brief times reaching 70+ kb/sec. Definitely sounds like a bottleneck or maybe packet size changes.
 
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