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Beamdog Server Crash Imminent?

marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
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Just getting slower, and slower, and slower. I'm currently downloading at 200 BYTES per second. Not even in the Kilabyte range.

I went from having 1 minute left to 23 hours!! :P

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  • styggastygga Member Posts: 467
    try turning turbo on and off?
  • OcculusXOcculusX Member Posts: 99
    Don't worry about it, it oscillates. I've been downloading since 7:35 PM, it's now 9:05 and I'm at 1.1 GB currently hauling butt at 500 kB/s. At around 8:30 it was about 26 kB/s.
  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    I'm at 2.6GB or 2.6GB, but it was stuck at at bytes per second for a long while. Toggling the turbo setting didn't help, but when I clicked on the "configure" button under download locations I ended up killing the launcher on accident. When I relaunced I was back in the KB range, but at the moment it's onl at around 3 KB/sec. Err, no, just dropped to 300B/S. And now back up to 1.5KB. Download times goes from 1 minute to hours in a blink of an eye


    And 16 seconds....

    23 seconds...

    26 seconds....

    32 seconds....

    51 seconds....

    2 minutes...

    59 minutes....

    1 hour 7 minutes....


    Such a roller coaster ride.
  • OcculusXOcculusX Member Posts: 99
    I suspect that they use some kind of a round robin queue to handle the server traffic... to be honest; I don't really have a clue. I think the client is calculating it based on instantaneous download speed... no averaging. It's actually a horrible way to make a download time prediction.
  • OcculusXOcculusX Member Posts: 99
    The instantaneous download speed metric is standard, though; go figure.
  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    And it finally completed. Now you all have 1 less person hogging up the bandwidth (except I'm still on the message boards, which are clearly using shared bandwidth).
  • OcculusXOcculusX Member Posts: 99
    Well, I have 1.3 GB downloaded. :) Halfway done. I guess I'll have to continue puttzing around on this board.
  • tenkakahntenkakahn Member Posts: 110
    I figure I will just play tomorrow been downloading for over 3 hours now only 1.1 GB waste of money
  • EudaemoniumEudaemonium Member Posts: 3,199
    At one point my download said it would take 86 years. I had to laugh. Aged 115 I finally get to play.
  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    After all that waiting, just think of how excited you'd be to finally play though!!
  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    If you could still find your computer, that is.
  • TrentOsterTrentOster Administrator, Developer Posts: 433
    Speed varies on which server you are getting each chunk from. We've got many servers out there and sometimes you get a slow chunk. The system works.

    Best
    -Trent
  • ArcalianArcalian Member Posts: 359
    This is why I won't even TRY to download until tomorrow maybe.
  • marcerormarceror Member Posts: 577
    edited November 2013
    TrentOster said:

    Speed varies on which server you are getting each chunk from. We've got many servers out there and sometimes you get a slow chunk. The system works.

    Best
    -Trent

    Well, technically yes, it worked, but I hope you are not trying to imply that 200 bytes per second download speeds are in any way efficient. It seems it would be far better to say something like:

    "yep, our servers are getting hammered from the flood of downloads, and so you're going to see some unacceptably slow download speeds at times. Sorry about that. I recommend that you go do something else and let the downloader do its thing."

    I mean, when I did the initial preload a few days ago it never got that slow, not even close. So clearly your servers are getting hammered. It not like it's entirely unexpected, but it seems odd to just completely act like it's all humming along nicely.

    Just sayin'
  • tenkakahntenkakahn Member Posts: 110
    Hammered by the TWO THOUSAND!!! Pre orders confirmed LOL
  • JLeeJLee Member Posts: 650
    @marceror I agreed only because I could not like, agree, and find your post insightful simultaneously:)
  • OcculusXOcculusX Member Posts: 99
    Sorry, I went and did something else for awhile. Thanks for providing a bit of an explanation of how you are handling things behind the scenes, Trent. That's kind of cool!

    You've always been quick to address anyone's concerns. Again, I really hope that you folks are able to work on BGIII. I think you could do a really good job with it. :)
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