Download speed.

Is it Portalarium's intention that Steam is the recommended patcher? Over two and a half hours later, on a gigabit service, I'm still downloading using the launcher.

 

I've noticed it always seems a bit slow early on. Sometimes it helps if you wait a while or stop and restart. The launcher is basically using a torrent download so speeds are also dependent on where it's getting the files from. And the longer it's been the more people will have those files.

 

Steam was over 3MB/s

 

I have the P2P off. What I do is restart the launcher if it is going slow. This time I restarted it 5 times until download speed came in at 2.5 MB/sec. The first 5 times the speeds were around the usual 300 KB/sec. I don't have a clue as to what is going on.

 

Same results here. 100MB pipe. 5 restarts. Gave up and used the steam client. Instant success.

 

I didn't reset for fear of corrupting the patch. In the end, I didn't make it into the game until after noon.

 

This time I went to the torrents RSS page and downloaded it on a regular torrent client, so I didn't have to wait for the launcher to hear about the new version before downloading could start. Then I dropped the .torrent and .sotapatch files into the Downloads directory, waited until I heard on IRC that the update was open, and started the launcher. I was also updating two SotA installs, so it was better all around to do it this way.

FWIW, I had about a 6.6 ratio on the torrent when I canceled it just now, with the 300K bytes/sec upload cap I have set in my torrent client.

 

if you look at the options, it is designed to allow p2p downloading as well.. since you have a gigabit service, allow for that and let the speeds be faster for everyone else. sadly, bandwidth has become a finite resource due to greedy ISPs and high costs for backbone usage.. if that wasn't the case, i'm sure eff would find something else to fight.

 

It took me two hours to download R26 from Steam, but that's entirely due to (mostly) crappy Australian internet.