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Posted March 23, 2011
I thought it might be useful to have a thread where it's okay for us to talk about this round of download tests, and the results thereof.

Personally, I'm surprised at the number of people who ignore the instructions:
"Please refrain from chatter and comments, unless you experienced problems with any of the links or the download speed wasn't consistent. In case of inconsistent download speeds, please give us a rough average, rather than "from-to" brackets."
While there is not all that much chit-chat, quite a few people do the "from-to" thing that GOG explicitly stated they didn't want.

Also, it seems to me from the results so far that the four links are all rather unstable, and that their speeds don't seem to scale with the connection speed in any obvious fashion.

Any thoughts?
Post edited March 23, 2011 by Wishbone
Posted March 23, 2011
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Wishbone: Any thoughts?
I wish all my downloads can be as fast as the speeds I'm getting from mirrors 2 and 4 :(
Posted March 23, 2011
Agreed regarding the speed scaling. They generally oscillate by around 50-100 KB/s in my case.

My largest problem is with the way they decided to run this test; I think a wise move would of been to chose a couple of reference servers against which people to test their speed because they would avoid peered network speeds which are way greater compared to external/non-peered ones.
Posted March 23, 2011
I wonder about the validity of the tests. What can GOG really conclude from some user generated feedback. They can say that a portion of users got some good results, however they can't be sure that there weren't external factors. For example I started testing, then realised I was also downloading something on iPlayer, making any results I would have published distorted.

Surely there are better, and more reliable speed tests?
Posted March 23, 2011
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wpegg: I wonder about the validity of the tests. What can GOG really conclude from some user generated feedback. They can say that a portion of users got some good results, however they can't be sure that there weren't external factors. For example I started testing, then realised I was also downloading something on iPlayer, making any results I would have published distorted.
I think it goes without saying that you shouldn't be using your connection for a lot of other demanding tasks while performing the test. That's just common sense. Also, I'm pretty sure this is not to be used for "saying a portion of users got some good results". This isn't about PR, it's about finding out how to improve the setup of their download servers.
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wpegg: Surely there are better, and more reliable speed tests?
This isn't just about a speed test. This is about seeing how lots of different types of connections, at lots of different bandwidths and lots of different locations, handle different setups. It's about the end user's experience, and you can't get those results with an automated speed test from a high-powered server.

One thing they might be able to use these results for is to say "Okay, we should add a mirror server in Mexico" or something like that.
Posted March 23, 2011
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Wishbone: One thing they might be able to use these results for is to say "Okay, we should add a mirror server in Mexico" or something like that.
Actually Mexico seems to be doing a lot better than me, even with very similar speed tests. So maybe a UK server? :P
Posted March 23, 2011
I have to admit I forgot about the "from-to", however, it is fixed now. :) It seems some people got wildly inconsistent results with all of the servers, I only had a problem with Link 3 which in Safari oddly tried to download in a window (so I couldn't see the rate) rather than the normal download manager, but it did download in Firefox in the download manager albeit varying wildly in rate on the order of MBs not just KBs. Very erratic signal.
Posted March 23, 2011
I'm wondering what the hell is going on with those Southerners with the absurd connections. I've got the top residential packages I can get and it's only a small fraction of what they've got in other parts of the country.

Qwest seems wholly unable to give us anything more than the 5mbps that I've got, and at an absurd price too.

EDIT: I too remember A Pup named Scooby Doo.
Post edited March 23, 2011 by hedwards
Posted March 23, 2011
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Wishbone: One thing they might be able to use these results for is to say "Okay, we should add a mirror server in Mexico" or something like that.
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Navagon: Actually Mexico seems to be doing a lot better than me, even with very similar speed tests. So maybe a UK server? :P
Hehe, "Mexico" wasn't actually based on the results, I just grabbed a country at random. It was only an example.
Post edited March 23, 2011 by Wishbone
Posted March 23, 2011
Link 1 & 2 are not stable for me: with second run (like 30 min after the first one) I got speed at 40%-60% of the first download. Few minutes later and third run - all is back to 850 kB/s.
With link 3 & 4 I had no issue like this - they gave me steady & repetitive download speed.
Post edited March 23, 2011 by tburger
Posted March 23, 2011
I only had one link that worked for me. Also, my connection jumps around in speeds. I checked after performing the test for GOG and I had a connection speed of 7 Mbps....
Posted March 23, 2011
Mine is highly unstable (but that is NORMAL here, not GOG's fault). Saying that the first link is 90 kB/s is actually not valid, since it ranged from 60 kB/s to 150 kB/s. That's why I put "highly inconsistent" there, and only because GOG does not want a range but an approximate number.
Posted March 23, 2011
I want 170 odd meg download speed flipping 2.47mb
Posted March 24, 2011
I wonder what prompted this - Maybe anticipation of huge downloads on the Witcher 2 release day???
Posted March 24, 2011
Gotta say, my curiosity is piqued with regards to where the four test files are hosted, especially since my results were super-consistent: all four downloads maxed my 10 Mbps connection and there was a high-low spread (of the perceived average speed) of only 20 kBps among the four.

Can't this stuff be measured quite accurately at the hosting server, to include rough geographic locations based on the IP address?
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