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glynor

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Build Download Slow?
« on: November 14, 2006, 06:32:38 pm »
For the past week or so I've been noticing that the download of the daily (often anyway) MC12 build has been a lot slower than it was previously.  This has applied to downloading it both at home and at work (which use completely different types of WAN connections -- my office is on a 20mbit fiber connection), so I'm reasonably sure it's not just my ISP being flaky.

Today, I actually had a lot of trouble with the download timing out.  It actually took me about 4 tries before I was able to successfully grab a copy of the build.

I'm also a little extra suspicious because my "trouble" started just about right after this conversation happened...

Anyone else noticing it?  Are you doing any new load balancing or bandwidth saving at JRiver (if so, then I think you might be being a bit aggressive)?
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Re: Build Download Slow?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2006, 06:35:26 pm »
Don't think anything is going on here, but we'll check.
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Re: Build Download Slow?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2006, 08:41:21 pm »
We've never throttled the download bandwidth (so a download manager won't make it faster by breaking it into multiple streams).

If you are seeing a slow download I'm thinking it must be related to the properties of the CoLo. I'll do some offsite testing from several locations to see if I can duplicate the problem.

Thanks for the feedback...
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Re: Build Download Slow?
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2006, 08:06:21 am »
There was something odd going on last night but it looks to be gone this morning. If you notice it again please let us know...
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Re: Build Download Slow?
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2006, 08:27:38 am »
Seems to be working well from the office this morning!
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Re: Build Download Slow?
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2006, 08:28:06 am »
Not had any problems here.
Although something has always throttled the JRiver downloads for me
to 50kb/s.  No matter which ISP i'm using or which part
of the UK I'm in, so I'm guessing it's something between
us and the server...
Using  Freedownload manager I get 200kb/s.
Don't get it on any other downloads, from America or otherwise.
I'd imagine Marko see's the same thing?
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Re: Build Download Slow?
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2006, 08:48:47 am »
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RETR /pub/downloads/MC12/MediaCenter120113.exe
Data Connection opened.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /pub/downloads/MC12/MediaCenter120113.exe (14286544 bytes).
Data Connection closed
14286544 bytes transferred in 00:03:25, 69690 bytes/sec
226 Transfer complete.

The speed is normal, about 70 KB/s. This is what I usually get here in Finland.


Out of curiosity I tried how "far" jriver.com is from my address. JRiver appears to be quite close.

This building is connected with fiber and I have almost direct connection to the international network. The "se.eunetip.net" address is already out of Finland (in Sweden).

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C:\tracert ftp.jriver.com

Tracing route to ftp.jriver.com [198.73.82.66]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  my.router [192.168.0.1]
  2     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  lo1-2.co3.pa1.hki.fi.eunetip.net [62.142.44.1]
  3     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  ge9-22.mx1.pa1.hki.fi.eunetip.net [195.197.57.82]
  4     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  ge0-1-0-4000.bbr1.hel2.fi.eunetip.net [213.192.191.105]
  5     8 ms     8 ms     8 ms  so1-1-0-0.bbr1.sto2.se.eunetip.net [213.192.191.206]
  6     8 ms     9 ms     9 ms  netnod-ix-ge-a-sth-1500.cogent.com [194.68.123.155]
  7    22 ms    23 ms    22 ms  p15-2.core01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.129]
  8    29 ms    29 ms    29 ms  p15-2.core01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.177]
  9    37 ms    37 ms    36 ms  p15-2.core01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.125]
 10    44 ms    44 ms    44 ms  p15-2.core01.ham01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.1.110]
 11   114 ms   113 ms   114 ms  p9-0.core02.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.253]
 12   151 ms   151 ms   151 ms  p12-0.core01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.3.202]
 13   152 ms   152 ms   152 ms  g49.ba01.b005948-0.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.5.90]
 14   152 ms   151 ms   151 ms  LightEdge.dmark.cogentco.com [38.112.28.26]
 15   161 ms   161 ms   161 ms  fa1-0-0.sms-2.dc511.msp.lightedge.com [64.247.192.190]
 16   160 ms   161 ms   161 ms  ftp.jriver.com [198.73.82.66]

Trace complete.
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Re: Build Download Slow?
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2006, 05:44:05 pm »
No problems to speak of tonight.  I'm slightly suspicious that my problems last night may have been PeerGuardian-related.  It didn't seem to be blocking it tonight though...

I actually just started using Free Download Manager which is pretty nice (and actually does speed up downloads quite a bit).   ;D
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