Eso download question

Love_Daggerfall · March 2016

I am using xbox One.
I have a very fast modem.
I have loads of internet.
My Eso is 39% after 3 days downloading.
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Is it normal for Eso to take all week to download?

UrQuan · March 2016

Nope. Pause it and start it again, because it seems to have gotten stuck on a super low speed. On PC if you pause the download in the launcher and then start again you don't lose any progress - I'd assume it's the same on console.

Nestor · March 2016

Pause the download and restart it (I think you actually stop it to pause it), then it picks up again where it left off.

phaneub17_ESO · March 2016

On PC I can tell you they have a very inefficient downloader via the launcher. It downloads data in chunks, installs a portion, then downloads again resetting your download speed; I assume the method is the same for consoles. I would prefer it download the entire data patch then install it all at once, but I doubt they'll go down that route. I have other games that have larger data that download much faster than this game, its frustrating.

Love_Daggerfall · March 2016

UrQuan wrote: »

Nope. Pause it and start it again, because it seems to have gotten stuck on a super low speed. On PC if you pause the download in the launcher and then start again you don't lose any progress - I'd assume it's the same on console.

I never thought of doing this.
Thanks for the serguestion.

Love_Daggerfall · March 2016

Nestor wrote: »

Pause the download and restart it (I think you actually stop it to pause it), then it picks up again where it left off.

I am noticing todays download is much quicker.
If it gets suck like 1% per hour I will pause and restart.

Love_Daggerfall · March 2016

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

On PC I can tell you they have a very inefficient downloader via the launcher. It downloads data in chunks, installs a portion, then downloads again resetting your download speed; I assume the method is the same for consoles. I would prefer it download the entire data patch then install it all at once, but I doubt they'll go down that route. I have other games that have larger data that download much faster than this game, its frustrating.

I have been thinking.
I play almost every game online.
Would playing online games slow down the background download of Eso?
In a last hour Eso has downloaded 5% and thats a lot better then the last 3 days.
I just hope when l start playing games the download don't hammer the breaks as far as speed goes.

Nestor · March 2016

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Would playing online games slow down the background download of Eso?

Streaming would have the biggest hit, so if anyone in your house is watching Netflix or Hulu or Youtube or Twitch or...then tell them to stop. What can also happen is say someone does stream while your downloading, you can get stuck on the lower download throttle and never get kicked back up. Which is why you pause and restart. Note the lower throttle is used as the server knows to wait a little longer for acknowledgements of the packets.

On line gaming traffic is lots of small packets that don't add up to all that much data, maybe a few Kbits per minute to maybe a Mb per minute, as compared to streaming which can be upwards of a 5 to 10 Mb per second. So, streaming is like 100 times more load than playing games.

gypsythief · March 2016

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

I have been thinking.
I play almost every game online.
Would playing online games slow down the background download of Eso?

It shouldn't do at all.

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

I have a very fast modem.

You don't say what speed, but I'll assume 10's of Mb/s; online games use 10-100's of Kb/s; that leaves loads of spare bandwidth for your ESO download. I also regularly download things whilst online gaming with no problems with either game or download.

My guess would be something like a faulty router somewhere between you and ESO's servers that's messing up your download.

Love_Daggerfall · March 2016

Nestor wrote: »

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

Would playing online games slow down the background download of Eso?

Streaming would have the biggest hit, so if anyone in your house is watching Netflix or Hulu or Youtube or Twitch or...then tell them to stop. What can also happen is say someone does stream while your downloading, you can get stuck on the lower download throttle and never get kicked back up. Which is why you pause and restart. Note the lower throttle is used as the server knows to wait a little longer for acknowledgements of the packets.

On line gaming traffic is lots of small packets that don't add up to all that much data, maybe a few Kbits per minute to maybe a Mb per minute, as compared to streaming which can be upwards of a 5 to 10 Mb per second. So, streaming is like 100 times more load than playing games.

I believe l stream by using the online radio app.
I normaly use this when playing online games.
I guess the down load is faster today because l have not used anything else online at the same time.

Nestor · March 2016

Love_Daggerfall wrote: »

I believe l stream by using the online radio app.

Audio Streaming is not too bad. One thing that can bottleneck your Internet Connection is your router. For example the WRT54G, the most popular AP out there pretty much sucks with multiple connections and bandwidth. Works fine for one person, but more than one connection, performance suffers. Good news is, you don't need to spend a bunch of money on a decent router to have good performance with multiple users.

Anything over 100 in this chart is good

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/view

Anything over 200 on this chart

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/76-total-simul

And, anything 4096 or over on this chart (no you will never use that many connections it just means it has a decent chipset)

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/tools/charts/router/bar/76-total-simul

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