Installer download speed

[zxarde]

VPN downloads fast for the first few files, but after some files it goes back to these 0.10% steps again!
Not working!

[virtuali]

You shouldn't stop it, because if you are the first downloading that file on your node, you are causing the download to abort and start again. Also, try this:

https://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,34320.msg213950.html#msg213950

[zxarde]

Also very slow. It says 10:18:24 so im assuming 10 hours left.

[zxarde]

And im not stopping it. It downloads the file 001,002,003,004,005,006 etc very fast sometimes, but then stuck on some % then 0.10% progress per 1-3 seconds. without aborting

[zxarde]

This is what it shows in the bat file:

C:\Users\flore\Downloads>curl -v http://update.virtualisoftware.com/setup_msfs/fsdreamteam-gsx-pro-v3.7.6.zip.001 -o fsdreamteam-gsx-pro-v3.7.6.zip.001
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0* Host update.virtualisoftware.com:80 was resolved.
* IPv6: (none)
* IPv4: 172.67.73.67, 104.26.8.23, 104.26.9.23
*   Trying 172.67.73.67:80...
*   Trying 104.26.8.23:80...
* Established connection to update.virtualisoftware.com (172.67.73.67 port 80) from 192.168.2.31 port 58099
* using HTTP/1.x
> GET /setup_msfs/fsdreamteam-gsx-pro-v3.7.6.zip.001 HTTP/1.1
> Host: update.virtualisoftware.com
> User-Agent: curl/8.16.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Request completely sent off
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:57:31 GMT
< Content-Type: application/zip
< Content-Length: 490000000
< Connection: keep-alive
< Server: cloudflare
< Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:33:24 GMT
< ETag: "1d34ce80-64981df2ad900"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Nel: {"report_to":"cf-nel","success_fraction":0.0,"max_age":604800}
< Report-To: {"group":"cf-nel","max_age":604800,"endpoints":[{"url":"https://a.nel.cloudflare.com/report/v4?s=6MbSmTCDQRqXoeb6UNHQDjPFAnyqcf1cE9g1iZUlTFCiy%2FCrXZRjqu0hR8FHccDB7XIDfG4x2SdyKhF93cog8RDZ%2F9ALxv2Fr%2FPsJ0oKlu%2FZ7wFm8xxdWPUE"}]}
< Age: 117833
< expires: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:57:31 GMT
< Cache-Control: public, max-age=2678400
< cf-cache-status: HIT
< CF-RAY: 9c939a9fccac9769-FRA
<
{ [2190 bytes data]
  0  467M    0 1592k    0     0   6987      0 19:28:50  0:03:53 19:24:57  2229

[virtuali]

Ok, but it is downloading ?

[zxarde]

Yes. But it's very slow the "1592k of 467M" number goes up very slowly

[virtuali]

See how it is here, I had to use a VPN to connect to the same node as you (FRA):

It took 3 minutes to download 6.6GB, and if I turn off the VPN it's even faster.

[zxarde]

I fixed it by resetting my router to factory settings. Now things downloaded and GSX is successfully installed again. It was a strange issue that's for sure..

[virtuali]

I fixed it by resetting my router to factory settings.

My next suggestion would have been to check the router. Some routers (Asus, for example) have security software from Trend Micro that sometimes block our domain.

However, this usually result in a complete inability to even access the files, not just a slow download. Unless, if the router was also performing some kind of real time scanning of the files as well, as part of the integrated antivirus, it might explain the slowdown.

[zxarde]

Thanks for the information and thank you for taking your time to help me. Have a great evening.

[RogePete]

Thank you for your reply, Virtuali.

First of all. I never said your server sucks. Second, it wasn' an accusation, it was just a finding. I now that the installer is mostly downloading from Cloudflare.

But thanks for your explanations (I mean that!).

Now, for my side to explain. No antivirus on my system or the router is responsible here. I can monitor the download speed with a tool (more capable than the Windows taskmanager). And it WAS the connection speed (to Cloudfare most likely). The point is, it was much better before. I do know that this can have more than one reason. A node in Frankurt, Cloudfare itself, etc.). But since you wrote you did something different on the download method, I thought I inform you, just in case. I also thought, you might be interested if the Cloudflare servers are doing bad.

It seems I'm not the only one. And it might be the case that it is a German node / cloud problem. We'll have to see how this is going on.

[virtuali]

It seems I'm not the only one. And it might be the case that it is a German node / cloud problem. We'll have to see how this is going on.

If you followed all the troubleshooting with zxarde, it turned out to be an issue with its router that got fixed by resetting to default settings, so nothing to do with cloudflare nodes or the installer, at least in his case.