Notarobot Posted January 18 Posted January 18 Good lord. So download speed is good now. So good it eats all my 200 Mbit internet. That is excellent. However, while downloading i can't do much internet related, so i though if i click 'cancel' , surely it won't throw away all the gigs i have been downloading for hours. Except, it does? There's no 'pause'? Please build a pause
MAXsenna Posted January 18 Posted January 18 1 hour ago, Notarobot said: However, while downloading i can't do much internet related, so i though if i click 'cancel' , surely it won't throw away all the gigs i have been downloading for hours. True, it shouldn't. Everything downloaded should be in your _download folder until everything is downloaded and patched. Then it should empty. You're saying this ain't so?
Notarobot Posted January 19 Author Posted January 19 Oh really? Cause when i restarted the download the time was the same as when i first started the first download. If i'm wrong though, forget this thread
MAXsenna Posted January 19 Posted January 19 13 hours ago, Notarobot said: Oh really? Cause when i restarted the download the time was the same as when i first started the first download. If i'm wrong though, forget this thread Not saying you're wrong, and I believe you. It just shouldn't happen, while I've heard other people with the exact same problem. What you probably could do though, is setting up some QoS rules in your router to throttle the download, if the problem persists.
Dangerzone Posted January 20 Posted January 20 I believe MAXsenna is right. The files are cached. The only part of the download that is discarded to my knowledge is files that are partially download and not completed. (There seems to be a lot of individual files downloaded and cached). So if the first file was a large file, and it was partially through - then maybe that could cause it to start again from scratch with the same amount of time, but TBH - I'd be looking at MB remaining to download, and not the time (nor the other MB remaining which includes MB cached locally yet to be unpacked which is done at the very end). 1
Aapje Posted January 20 Posted January 20 The time to finish a download/install is notoriously unreliable, since it is essentially an attempt to predict the future. So these times are often faked in some way. It might be the case that the time to finish is calculated based on the total download size, ignoring that files have already been downloaded. To test it properly, one cannot look at the displayed time, but you would have to time the actual download yourself. 1
MAXsenna Posted January 20 Posted January 20 (edited) @Dangerzone @Aapje You guys are completely correct. I actually misread and didn't notice time. I just automatically assumed remaining data. @Notarobot Like they say. Always look at remaining data, forget about time. Edited January 20 by MAXsenna 1
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