Auto-Downloader

[Rotku]

This is getting silly. It's been sitting on 4kb/sec for the past twenty minutes, and since starting downloading half an hour ago hasn't risen about 32kb/sec. Is there any alternative way around using the Auto-downloader, as there's no way I'm keeping NWN2 open for 21 hours waiting for it to download.

[Rotku]

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

After downloading for four or so hours, the bloody thing times out!

[Blindhamsterman]

I initially had the same problem, try logging in around 1am GMT time, got about 100Kbs then..

I think AL has a link to a place you can download all the files as well.

[zicada]

Which machine are you two connecting to ?

The files aren't downloaded from the machines hosting the modules. If you connect to BG to download, you download from the machine that hosts the website among other things, it's a massive server on a 10 GIGABIT dark fiber link.

If you connect to TSM, you currently get files from a fileserver in the US,- the same that is used for DM ftp, i'm unsure about the specs, but for me, living in norway, i rarely get decent speeds from it,- especially during primetime US.

*scratches head*

[dob85y]

Send me your machine in the post Rotku, my average speed at my local time of 6pm was around 150k/s, and I think that was my modem maxing out.

[Riotnrrd]

I'm in the eastern US. Last night I was getting VERY slow transfers from the european server (downloads.alandfaraway.org, about 26kB / sec) and fairly fast transfers from the US server (ftp.alandfaraway.org, about 150-200kB / sec).

Could it be that US is faster for US, and euro is faster for euro? If that's the case, and its significant difference... could the servers be pinged / tested before download to see which is faster for a given client?

Here's how to tell where you're coming from: Go to Documents and Settings/<user>/
Local Settings/Temp/NWN2/Logs directory, and look at nwnclient1.log It should show you where you're downloading from.

Might it be prudent to place the haks somewhere else as an alternate download... like as a torrent somewhere?

[Rotku]

I initially had the same problem, try logging in around 1am GMT time, got about 100Kbs then..

I think AL has a link to a place you can download all the files as well.

Tried that time. No success. Got to 10% before crapping out.

[Rotku]

Which machine are you two connecting to ?

The files aren't downloaded from the machines hosting the modules. If you connect to BG to download, you download from the machine that hosts the website among other things, it's a massive server on a 10 GIGABIT dark fiber link.

If you connect to TSM, you currently get files from a fileserver in the US,- the same that is used for DM ftp, i'm unsure about the specs, but for me, living in norway, i rarely get decent speeds from it,- especially during primetime US.

*scratches head*

Have tried both. TSM is marginally faster/times out less.

[Rotku]

Just tried now (which has to be one of the busy times for US) and am getting 130kb/sec.

If this rate keeps up I might be able to play!

*crosses his fingers*

[Rotku]

Here's how to tell where you're coming from: Go to Documents and Settings/<user>/
Local Settings/Temp/NWN2/Logs directory, and look at nwnclient1.log It should show you where you're downloading from.

Can't find that anywhere...

Might it be prudent to place the haks somewhere else as an alternate download... like as a torrent somewhere?

Very good idea! Or even keep WG going.