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jordanal:
Hi all,
After recently performaing a fresh install of all my FSDT sceneries and again today while installing the FSDT Ohare 2.0 update, I noticed the download speed of the Couatl.exe and other miscellanious files immediately following the installation, basically sucks.  This has been observed for a long while and only occurs in this very specific download circumstance.  Why are you crippling the bandwidth used after each scenery installation?  I pay for fast broadband and yet I have to wait after each FSDT scenery installation for these few files to download at usually 20kb/sec transfer rate.  The original FSDT setup installers come down at almost 600kb/sec - so why is the post-install bandwidth so limited?  Again, this only happens in this specific situation and nowhere else on the Internet is this observed.   :-\

Open the valve, man...

virtuali:
That's not a problem with the installer, and surely our the bandwidth is not limited by us in any way.

It's just that, because of the sale we are having AND the O'Hare update we released at the same time, more people are downloading installers now, so the bandwidth we have, which we give out entirely, is shared between more people than usual.

In any case, if you need to install multiple sceneries at time, there's no need to self-update the same files multiple times so, you can do the following:

1) Install any scenery with the NETWORK DISCONNECTED. The installer will detect you don't have an internet connection available, and will ask if you want to continue using Local Files instead. Press the Next button and the installer will proceed without going online.

2) Repeat this for all the sceneries you need to install, always with the network disconnected

3) When you are done with all the sceneries, turn the Network back on, then install the Stand-Alone Addon Manager with the network on, so everything will be updated at once.

jordanal:
Ah, thanks Umberto, I appreciate the offline-trick, that will certainly help.  But, seriously dude, you really should look into that post-install bandwidth.  In my several years of collecting all the FSDT sceneries, I've never seen anything close to reasonable for the post-install download speed.  I'm telling you, it's crippled somewhere...   ::)

virtuali:
Download speeds are quite acceptable here, considering many people are downloading, as you can see from the screenshot. My broadband connection is nothing special, it's a 4MB DSL.

Orion:
If it helps any, I recall getting about 30 KB/s downloading the Addon Manager when reviewing FlightBeam's KSFO.

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