Has Daz slowed the download rate for manual downloaders?

AnotherUserName

Any of my fellow dinosaurs noticed that the manual download speeds have gotten pretty slow? At first I just thought that perhaps it was just my internet. Its been like this for several days now though and my download speed from rendo is unchanged...

No update notification, slow download speeds, its like Daz dosent want my money anymore. Either that or they want me to try dim (already did) or, HACK, HACK, COUGH... connect.

FSMCDesigns

Hmmmm, mine is always hit or miss, but I am sure it's my ISP since other things tend to slow down also like Youtube.

AnotherUserName

I just got a booster for my internet because we had another line put in. Generally, my internet has been relatively fast. But these daz downloads are so slowwwwww.

y3kman

Randomly happens to me. Something screws up between my ISP and DAZ's download server causing the connection to timeout.

jardine

DIM downloads are just as slow these days, for me.  if i have multiple products and any kind of volume to download, it's likely to take me six or seven lost connections and resumes to finish...it's gotten to the point where i think twice before purchasing if i'm looking at a product that's mega megabytes.  feel like there's been some kind of server switch that amounts to a downgrade for users...and it doesn't matter whether i'm using a PC or a mac.  but daz downloads have never been this slow and unreliable.

outrider42

Maybe Daz is getting throttled...

Taoz

Maybe they're testing FFC's new Net Bias rules.

Worlds_Edge

DIM was slow as molasses yesterday and the day before.  Maybe a lot of people were downloading Edward related things.

Taoz

jardine said:

DIM downloads are just as slow these days, for me.  if i have multiple products and any kind of volume to download, it's likely to take me six or seven lost connections and resumes to finish...it's gotten to the point where i think twice before purchasing if i'm looking at a product that's mega megabytes.  feel like there's been some kind of server switch that amounts to a downgrade for users...and it doesn't matter whether i'm using a PC or a mac.  but daz downloads have never been this slow and unreliable.

Hardly ever had any problems here with DIM, practically always rock stable connection and high speed. Just downloaded a 462 MB file, took 4 minutes. I'm in Europe, don't know if that matters.

Male-M3dia

I downloaded 5gb with DIM this afternoon while I went to the gym; was gone less than 2 hours and everything was done when i got back. I'd check your internet and/or ISP.

AnotherUserName

Male-M3dia said:

I downloaded 5gb with DIM this afternoon while I went to the gym; was gone less than 2 hours and everything was done when i got back. I'd check your internet and/or ISP.

Thats just it though. My isp and general speed is rocking for the most part. It seems to be the daz downloads that are taking their time.

AnotherUserName

Male-M3dia said:

I downloaded 5gb with DIM this afternoon while I went to the gym; was gone less than 2 hours and everything was done when i got back. I'd check your internet and/or ISP.

OT : Oh, by the way, cant wait to pick up https://www.daz3d.com/m3d-jessica-hd-for-genesis-8-female . Has to wait a little while, but instantly wishlisted. :)

nonesuch00

LOL, it is the file servers used by DAZ not your ISP. My massive Unity beta reinstalls always download relatively quick compared to the DAZ downloads which are usually mediocre or slow in download speed. Not so massively slow as trying to Kodi view SF1 or BR but slow.

Chohole

manual downloads this morning for me coming in at 2.8Mb/s, which is about as fast as mine ever goes anywhere.   

James_H

Mine have been very slow recently on my desktop. I thought my connection to Dz was being throttled.

Chohole

Sometimes if you find downloads are being slow  resetting your router can help.  I know my ISP does often wrok on things overnight and at weekends and they do actually recommend that routers should be reset if they appear to be slow.

TomDowd

Through the past week my DIM downloads have been very slow. Not this morning, though... full speed ahead, or down as the case may be.

Pack58

Between manual for archives, DIM for my server and Connect for my IRay machine I downloaded about 45GB from DAZ in 5 hours yesterday, so about 2.6-2.7MB/s which is close to my average from anywhere but one payed storage service on local servers.

Have had the odd day or three when downloading from DAZ in proplematic but I download more here then any other site exept a couple of locat TV providers and the aforesaid cload service so no surprise there..

AnotherUserName

I have no answers, only questions.

Daywalker Designs

Honestly, it's more likely a service provider between yours and DAZ than DAZ themselves.

alexhcowley

Chohole said:

Sometimes if you find downloads are being slow  resetting your router can help.  I know my ISP does often wrok on things overnight and at weekends and they do actually recommend that routers should be reset if they appear to be slow.

This often works with me, too.

Cheers,

Alex.

AnotherUserName

Well, my download speed this morning seemed fine. Perhaps I was seeing slow speeds because it was "peak times". Perhaps it was the machine gods toying with me again. There has certainly been alot of that lately.

Kevin Sanderson

Only times I see slow speeds from DAZ is peak time or after a big new release. And they sometimes get more servers for those times. My AT&T internet recently got faster upload speeds. It has had faster downloads for some time.