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Subject: Extremely Slow Downloads

RodS opened this issue on Jun 10, 2013 · 210 posts


adorety posted Fri, 28 June 2013 at 12:04 AM

Thanks for the update, but.....

Still the same here. No faster. Averaging 80 kb/s. If it's Comcast I don't know why every other website I get DL speeds up to 2 mb/s where available. Smith Micro is a little slow at 600-700 kb/s, but generally speaking all sites where I would download, DAZ and C3D, are all normal.

Browsing this site is now fine. I'm glad for that. I can view images normally again and not have to refresh all the time. Downloading from the freebies site is lightining quick, but when I try to download from my account...80 kb/s

I confess ignorance, again, on how signal routing works over countryside networks, but I don't understand how it must be Comcast if everything else works fine and I'm still using Comcast for all that too. Believe me, I'm not defending Comcast, I could list issues too, but it doesn't seem consistent. Unless it's a Comcast "hub" under contstruction as BWsupport says and that's the only way, from here, into Renderosity and my Renderosity account downloads.

A question I have is; how is it different browsing a site compared to downloading. The obvious is there, they are two different interacions, a download obviously can take longer to stream than an image to upload, but if it's all to the same site, the connection I would think be the same. But, I don't know. The most perplexing is it seems some people have no problems and some do.  Unless some don't notice the speed change or care. So I don't know.

I still enjoy everyone's art here, so I'll still be watching and participating. As long as navigating the site is normal I'm glad to absorb and share the art.

I wish ITsupport a lot of luck in figuring this out and appreciate the updates as things occur.

Thanks, AD