Why am I getting such bad download speeds for IL-2: BoS

[Shatter12]

 

I usually have between 2-4MB/s download speed for games such as WT, AW and DCS: World, but I am struggling to even get past the 200KB/s mark. Anyone have any clues as to why? I am not running any background tasks either.

[-TBC-AeroAce]

I sometimes get really bad speeds for this game but it normally is fine. I guess it is to do with your location and or how many others are downloading at the same time

[Shatter12]

I sometimes get really bad speeds for this game but it normally is fine. I guess it is to do with your location and or how many others are downloading at the same time

I'm the only one using the internet at the moment.

[No_85_Gramps]

I'm the only one using the internet at the moment.

He's talking about other people d/l at the same time you are, sometimes slowing things down, not the number of people using the internet at your location.

[216th_Jordan]

Did you check 'prefer web distribution'? That normally helps when speeds are slow.

[Jade_Monkey]

Did you close all the porn downloads from eMule?

[IRRE_Centx]

And that's the only good argument to transfer BoS on Steam... at least you get the download server of Steam!

 

It boosted my download speed from 50 Ko/s to 500 Ko/s... which is my max download speed on my crap connexion 

 

 

 

 

(before anybody asks: yes I still do all my purchases directly on il-2 website, I don't give any money to Steam!)

Edited December 5, 2016 by -IRRE-Centx

[Dave]

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I usually have between 2-4MB/s download speed for games such as WT, AW and DCS: World, but I am struggling to even get past the 200KB/s mark. Anyone have any clues as to why? I am not running any background tasks either.

Wow 70k. I'm get about 15kb/s. To rule out iiNet as the cause I just downloaded a large file from my Palo Alto server at around 15Mb/s. Why are updates so painfully slow?

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

hmmm

as its peer to peer might be the issue

i chose web distribution and recent patch download @ 1.24M/sec

[Feathered_IV]

Is Prefer Web Distribution actually some sort of torrent method, or is it a download from a server?  The phrase is about as revealing as an el Qaida swimsuit calendar. 

 

71kbs...

[Dave]

Is Prefer Web Distribution actually some sort of torrent method, or is it a download from a server?  The phrase is about as revealing as an el Qaida swimsuit calendar. 

 

71kbs...

Pretty sure its the other way around. Web distribution uses HTTP to download update files (in a single HTTP connection) from a server on AWS. The alternative (and default) is to use P2P where the chunks are seeded by others who have already downloaded parts of the update.