Oh dear. Today as part of the new discounts I purchased licenses for Cubase Pro 11 and Elements 11 (Elements doesn’t need a stupid dongle so I use that on my laptop).
Download speed is diabolical. I have a gigabit internet connection and get around 30 kilobytes a second which is ridiculous.
It appears that the hosting company uses a throttling mechanism that allows a certain amount of data before applying the throttle (a common mechanism in proxying firewalls).
So my sysadmin protip - wait for the download to devolve into double digits then hit ‘Pause’ then immediately hit ‘Continue’ - your download should at least revert into almost half a megabyte a second - at least for for a short while. Repeat this process if you need to speed things up.
Not really an answer for you but as an fyi, Content delivery is provided by CDNs, like Akamai or Amazon, not a hosting provider as such.
As far as I know there’s no throttling as you described, done by those services.
As far as I know there’s no throttling as you described, done by those services.
Speaking as a sysadmin by trade, I can tell you definitively they are throttling. You can see this behaviour for yourself by starting a download and monitoring the download speed. It will start ‘fast’ (well - triple digits KILObytes download) then slowly devolve into double digits. If when hitting double digits you quickly ‘pause’ then ‘continue’ the speed will start again in triple digits then slowly devolve into double digits. If you keep pausing and continuing the downloads you will cause the system to treat you as a ‘new’ download each time so you get a new ‘bucket’ that they are using to throttle download speed.
If I were a Steinberg sysadmin I’d be making complaints to the hosting company.
I have been doing this for several hours and repeatedly I am seeing triple digit KILObyte download speeds after I pause and continue, which slowly devolves into double digits.
They announced it yesterday that’s why I got the upgrade from 10.5. I’m glad I got it yesterday then although I noticed all the other parts are a different version as well so I will have to download the updated versions at some point
There doesn’t seem to be anything “diabolical” and the issue seems to be in your side.
Download speed was never an issue for me, even when I was getting full installs of Cubase or Nuendo, with all the libraries (tens of GB).
The only thing that matters is others experiencing throttles like you say you do, not your speedtest results.
What does this even mean? Clearly there is an issue here with the CDN when accessed from certain geographical locations. You clearly do not understand how data networks function so if you aren’t going to post anything constructive may I suggest you keep quiet.
While I agree that arguing with you is a waste of time, you may want to notice that you’re the only one in this thread having issues.
I’m pretty certain I don’t understand how data networks function and I’m also certain that you don’t understand what’s happening to your connection, despite you boasting about your competence in the area.
