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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: glynor on November 14, 2006, 06:32:38 pm

Title: Build Download Slow?
Post by: glynor 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... (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=36467.0)

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)?
Title: Re: Build Download Slow?
Post by: JimH on November 14, 2006, 06:35:26 pm
Don't think anything is going on here, but we'll check.
Title: Re: Build Download Slow?
Post by: bob 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...
Title: Re: Build Download Slow?
Post by: bob 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...
Title: Re: Build Download Slow?
Post by: glynor on November 15, 2006, 08:27:38 am
Seems to be working well from the office this morning!
Title: Re: Build Download Slow?
Post by: Mr ChriZ 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?
Title: Re: Build Download Slow?
Post by: Alex B 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.
Title: Re: Build Download Slow?
Post by: glynor 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