6297j Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 I've finally bought Orcas from FSS and am downloading at the moment - can it really take 24 hours?! I'm downloading at 13.1kbs which seems extremely slow even for a Sunday afternoon. Is this normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Are you using a download manager if not this will increase your download speed and arrive faster. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6297j Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 I'm not because I didn't expect it to be this slow. 5% after one hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Give this one a try it is quite good. http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/download.html cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6297j Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Thanks Iain, I'm giving it a go now. It's telling me I have 2hrs 26 minutes left which is a huge improvement if true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Abdey Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 You certainly should be getting better than 13kbs regardless of using a manager or not; I have seen some sub 100kbs speeds recently which I consider very poor when 400 to 800 is more normal... not sure what’s going on, but UK broadband speed does seem rather sluggish of late Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6297j Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 It's hovering around 100kbs with this download manager. I agree though, as a BT user the last few weeks have been particularly bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6297j Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Finally got it, installed it over PNW.003, updated the libraries to 101205 and am just defragging before getting an hour or so of exploring done before bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Glad you got it mate its a corking piece of work indeed. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Kae Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Yeah, I am in the middle of locking horns with BT and some others in Europe mainly about them throttling user connections to CDN nodes. Very annoying and it is making me want to buy another server in Europe just to get rid of these sort of issues but it shouldn't happen, so I am up to email number 18 with them now, awaiting their latest reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpc111 Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Just picked this up myself. DL estimate is 29 mins. Not using a downloader. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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