10x my actualy download speed (for real too?)

[Master Disaster]

Downloading Elite Dangerous Horizons and the speed is showing as the following

 

 

Now my speed is supposed to be 40Mbps or usually around 3.8MBps but as you can see that clearly shows 40MBps.

 

And before you say its just a programming error, thats what I thought until I was able to launch and play ED:H after 6 minutes of downloading.

 

What the actual F?

[tbroadwater2010]

Do a bandwidth test with pcpitstop.com or speedtest,net and see what your bandwidth actually is?!

[Tech N Gamer]

It could be a hiccup in the ISP's computer.

[Guest]

Maybe it extracts files in same time and counts final size.

[yannickverc]

I see it's the "sync files" status. This isn't actually downloading. It's checking which files are downloaded already and which not. You probably interrupted the download at some point.

 

You can see this on Origen too. Sometimes it shows up to 500mb/s on the counter, in my case.

[Master Disaster]

I see it's the "sync files" status. This isn't actually downloading. It's checking which files are downloaded already and which not. You probably interrupted the download at some point.

 

You can see this on Origen too. Sometimes it shows up to 500mb/s on the counter, in my case.

 

Yeah, except for the fact it was a totally clean install.

 

I'd had some issues with the BETA launcher and had been advised to remove the old launcher, delete the game folder and the games appdata folder and start again so what your seeing there is the download speed of the files, it has to be as there was literally no ED files left on my computer before I began the install.

 

Speedtest.net shows normal 3.8Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up.

[yimello]

Probably just checking/reading/refreshing/writing files to/from the HDD/SSD.

[yimello]

Yeah, except for the fact it was a totally clean install.

 

I'd had some issues with the BETA launcher and had been advised to remove the old launcher, delete the game folder and the games appdata folder and start again so what your seeing there is the download speed of the files, it has to be as there was literally no ED files left on my computer before I began the install.

 

Speedtest.net shows normal 3.8Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up.

 

Launcher can be bugged. Showing wrong things. You cannot DL that fast with that kind of internet connection. P2P from a neighbor?

[Master Disaster]

Launcher can be bugged. Showing wrong things. You cannot DL that fast with that kind of internet connection. P2P from a neighbor?

 

Except it did, game went from zero to playable in 6 minutes?

 

I've just launched the game and it runs fine.

 

Is there another folder somewhere I missed when I cleaned everything off I wonder which contains the game files? But even then I didn't have Horizons installed, only the Horizons Beta which is now dead and the old 1.4 client.

 

This is confusing.

[yimello]

Except it did, game went from zero to playable in 6 minutes?

 

I've just launched the game and it runs fine.

 

If so, just be happy and DL something else

[mikat]

Except it did, game went from zero to playable in 6 minutes?

 

I've just launched the game and it runs fine.

 

Is there another folder somewhere I missed when I cleaned everything off I wonder which contains the game files? But even then I didn't have Horizons installed, only the Horizons Beta which is now dead and the old 1.4 client.

 

This is confusing.

what speeds are you paying for?

[yannickverc]

Yeah, except for the fact it was a totally clean install.

 

I'd had some issues with the BETA launcher and had been advised to remove the old launcher, delete the game folder and the games appdata folder and start again so what your seeing there is the download speed of the files, it has to be as there was literally no ED files left on my computer before I began the install.

 

Speedtest.net shows normal 3.8Mbps down and 1.2Mbps up.

Hmm weird. Keep in mind that the E:D launcher is a total piece of crap. I have the game too and when it just launched it would download for 5 seconds and then pause for 5 minutes. 

[Master Disaster]

Hmm weird. Keep in mind that the E:D launcher is a total piece of crap. I have the game too and when it just launched it would download for 5 seconds and then pause for 5 minutes.

Tell me about it, to even play horizons beta I had to use the Steam version but launch it independently, the stand alone launcher would run but never actually show up.

Luckily the final 2.0 launcher does seem to be working but only after I deleted everything from the game off my HDD including the Steam version. Never had an issue before 2.0 beta though.