How to http download with updater 2.9?

[Badoo]

Hi there,

New user here. I’m trying to install a brand new instance of DCS World with Updater version 2.9 on Windows 11, but can’t get past 5kb/s speed while I have a 100GB/s download internet connection! My provider is Spectrum. From my previous experience with torrent sites, I know Spectrum for sure blocks and throttles down the speed of downloads when using torrents. To make sure nothing else is causing this, I have turned off my firewall and have no other virus blocker software running on my machine. I also checked and Windows autotune is enabled.

I know in previous versions of Updater, user could switch to direct http download and not to use torrents.  But looks like that is removed in 2.9! I was wondering if there’s any other way I can directly download the install files from your server through http now, and without using torrents?

I attached my autoupdate_log.txt file as well.

Thanks.

autoupdate_log.txt

Edited May 8, 2024 by Badoo

[rob10]

ED hasn't used torrent for download since about 2020 (near as a search reveals date wise)

[Badoo]

Hmm, that's strange! Cause I see .pack files are stacking up in _downloads/.packs folder as empty files first and then they start to gain size. Exact behavior that you see when a torrent client downloads bunch of files in parallel. (See the attached screenshot) I have no speed problem downloading files directly from any other site, except this one. And as you can see in my screenshot, the download is very sporadic and slow.

Is there anything I can do to speed this up?!

Thanks.

[One Eyed Ross]

This is where I am.  Updater says "Downloaded 71.4 of 120081.7 MBytes Speed 0.9 MB/s" and has for a LOOOOOONNNGGG time.  Going nowhere fast.

[rob10]

3 hours ago, One Eyed Ross said:

This is where I am.  Updater says "Downloaded 71.4 of 120081.7 MBytes Speed 0.9 MB/s" and has for a LOOOOOONNNGGG time.  Going nowhere fast.

If the 1st number is not changing I'd cancel and restart it.  It will pick up from where it left off, although it will initially say "0 of xxxxx" but the "xxxxxx" will be smaller than the current 120081.

[One Eyed Ross]

I did...and I did....and I did.  Still wouldn't work.  "Server returned null string"....  finally got it (sort of)...will see how it goes.

 

I am going to blame it on the solar storm and Starlink.

 

Edited May 12, 2024 by One Eyed Ross

[Badoo]

Yeah, same here. Restarted a million times so far, but each time after a little while with very low speed, it gives me either Curl SSL error or says server is out of capacity and try later. One Eyed Ross, you're lucky it went through once!

Edited May 13, 2024 by Badoo

[Badoo]

Hi rob10, thanks for your reply. I keep getting the following errors in autoupdate_log. Any idea what can be the cause of it? I also attached my autoupdate_log file for your attentions.

00920.982 INFO : Got incomplete data for .packs/7b8d250382f38dd70d907f21d4a23f4dcc15adb4.pack. Resuming...
00921.027 ERROR: Got Curl error (28): Timeout was reached
00953.578 ERROR: Got Curl error (35): SSL connect error
01039.223 STATUS: Curl error (35): SSL connect error
02807.514 === Log closed.

 

autoupdate_log.txt

Edited May 13, 2024 by Badoo

[Maverick87Shaka]

On 5/10/2024 at 10:32 PM, Badoo said:

Hmm, that's strange! Cause I see .pack files are stacking up in _downloads/.packs folder as empty files first and then they start to gain size. Exact behavior that you see when a torrent client downloads bunch of files in parallel. (See the attached screenshot) I have no speed problem downloading files directly from any other site, except this one. And as you can see in my screenshot, the download is very sporadic and slow.

Is there anything I can do to speed this up?!

Thanks.

You can try as workaround to connect to a VPN service, in that case all traffic will be "tunneled" in an encrypted TCP traffic, your ISP should not be able at that point to apply traffic shaping on it.
Even just for a single test, it will be useful to validate the theory of some restriction performed by your ISP

[rob10]

44 minutes ago, Badoo said:

Hi rob10, thanks for your reply. I keep getting the following errors in autoupdate_log. Any idea what can be the cause of it? I also attached my autoupdate_log file for your attentions.

00920.982 INFO : Got incomplete data for .packs/7b8d250382f38dd70d907f21d4a23f4dcc15adb4.pack. Resuming...
00921.027 ERROR: Got Curl error (28): Timeout was reached
00953.578 ERROR: Got Curl error (35): SSL connect error
01039.223 STATUS: Curl error (35): SSL connect error
02807.514 === Log closed.

 

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Sorry, that's way out of my level of knowledge