In the "old world" we would just now be uploading to a CD duplicator who would then be burning CD's and putting them in boxes. Oh wait, an "Enhanced Edition" wouldn't get shelf space and we'd have never been green lit for production. Our publisher would have refused to fund the concept and our team would be working on Mega Awesome Hair Dresser 4: Big hair party.
I think I prefer the modern option.
We also kicked early as a nod to Australians, how normally get screwed on this kind of thing.
In the "old world" we would just now be uploading to a CD duplicator who would then be burning CD's and putting them in boxes. Oh wait, an "Enhanced Edition" wouldn't get shelf space and we'd have never been green lit for production. Our publisher would have refused to fund the concept and our team would be working on Mega Awesome Hair Dresser 4: Big hair party.
I think I prefer the modern option.
We also kicked early as a nod to Australians, how normally get screwed on this kind of thing.
Best, -Trent
You probably should have screwed the Australian's this time too, lest they get a sense of entitlement. They probably have it coming anyway! :P
I live on a ship, and have to leave ship and go to the rec center on base to download. Using the public wifi here. If I'm lucky I'm breaking 140 kb/s and am only about 100mb into the whole download lol.
I've been downloading between 700kb/s and 1mb/s for the past 15 minutes... and I've been stuck at 2.6GB/2.6GB that entire time... I'm pretty sure it doesn't take 15 minutes to download .1GB at those speeds... something fishy is going on here...
If anybody is interested, I am having great deal more success with turbo mode turned off. I have tried both ways and I am consistently getting 100kb/sec more with it off.
I am using the Beamdog client to download, in the settings there is an option called turbo mode for downloading, it states that it utilizes p2p, so if you are not using beamdog's client, then I would imagine turning off p2p would gain roughly the same results. Might vary from person to person though.
@acw18 Oh, this is the first time I've downloaded a game directly from Beamdog. I guess I should've installed the client first. I assumed it would be done as I download the game... Maybe that's why my speed is so slow.
Well actually I do have a P2P option, which is highlighted by default, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to speed when I deselect it.
I am currently making progress with a download that seems to jump from 350kbps to nearly 600kbps at random. This is significantly better than downloading the 75MB of Trials of the Luremaster with a 56k modem back in 2000. I watched a movie and an hour-long TV show while that was underway.
Well take solace OP you're not the only one from New Zealand downloading the game. PS hint - it's not Beamdog's fault we have such a crappy internet connection speed.
turbo mode allows you to see the Amazon server instances as well. Without turbo you only see our dedicated seed boxes. It all comes down to which servers you happen to connect to for which data chunk. Some will be very fast, others less so. Ahh fault tolerance, you extract a price.
Well hey, at least BG2EE *is* larger than BG1EE now. Sure we can't add some more junk data? I'd like an awesomeness difference margin greater than just 300MB.
(this post sounded better than telling you people how I feel about only using like 10% my bandwidth on this download!!!11)
Well take solace OP you're not the only one from New Zealand downloading the game. PS hint - it's not Beamdog's fault we have such a crappy internet connection speed.
I have a 100mbit connection. I have no issues with my connection. I can DL from Steam, GOG, and Origin at line speed, so yeah it Beamdog... and the dl continues.
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Oh wait, an "Enhanced Edition" wouldn't get shelf space and we'd have never been green lit for production. Our publisher would have refused to fund the concept and our team would be working on Mega Awesome Hair Dresser 4: Big hair party.
I think I prefer the modern option.
We also kicked early as a nod to Australians, how normally get screwed on this kind of thing.
Best,
-Trent
I have a 12Mbps FIOS connection. It's usually pretty speedy, so clearly there's a bottleneck on Beamdog's side, though that's to be expected.
What is this turbo mode you speak of?
Oh, this is the first time I've downloaded a game directly from Beamdog. I guess I should've installed the client first. I assumed it would be done as I download the game... Maybe that's why my speed is so slow.
Well actually I do have a P2P option, which is highlighted by default, but it doesn't seem to make much difference to speed when I deselect it.
Now achieving around 350 KB/s instead of 20-50 KB/s.
-Trent
(this post sounded better than telling you people how I feel about only using like 10% my bandwidth on this download!!!11)