August holidays, Fileserver to CDN switchover and WYSIWYG editor for descriptions

[Bazamm]

My downloads were going at about 10kb/s and now have stopped completely. I live in Australia and was able to download much larger mods from this site yesterday. Any fixes?

[JupiterTheGod]

I think this is slowly getting fixed. Since the switch to CDN, I was only getting around 10 to 50 kbps. By reading the comments I found out that people who live in the US and UK didn't have this problem ( I live in Eastern Europe).

Still, I downloaded something last week and the average speed was 100 kbps. Today I downloaded the same thing at around 200 kbps. I think this CDN is somehow reconfiguring itself or something. I hope this gets better eventually, before I used to get 750+ kbps average speed.

[taffer]

In response to post #19705044.

Live in Australia too and I found downloading larger mods in the afternoon instead of in the morning the speed increased past the 200kb/s rate.

[MokaCat]

In response to post #19707899.

I live in the US and I've been having this problem though I think you are correct because I noticed a -slight- increase in speed...

I was getting around 20kbps and now it's around 50... really hoping this gets fixed soon Xd

[oranges4ever]

Anecdotally, since the CDN server setup my download speeds have usually been down 60-80% from a previously excellent average around 500 kb/s (with occasional higher peaks). Worse case was today, down 90% (ie to 50 kb/s).

I am in Australia. I'm not downloading as many mods as a few months ago, so it's not impacting me that much.

[basshead64]

downloads are not even starting. get it together

[PinkFloydDarksideofthemoon]

I saw a comment over at steam that ended up being removed somehow, But someone has Apparently claimed to have hacked the nexus CDN download system and planted a virus to slow it down. Is this just a Rumor or is it hacked?

[bben46]

@ pink If it were hacked, would most of the people reporting be saying it is actually better? Just because something is not working as well for you as most other people is not a conspiracy, It is a technical problem. :rolleyes:

 

CDN is not some untried experimental way of doing stuff, it is what most of the big commercial sites use - places like Amazon and Youtube use CDN.

Why are we so late going to CDN? Because it costs much more than the previous expense of having 20 servers scattered in a dozen locations across the US, UK & Europe. Contrary to what some users here seem to think, running a site the size of the Nexus is not free. It is actually is very expensive to give you FREE mods. That is the reason for the advertising. Isn't it nice that advertisers are willing to pay us for your FREE mods so you don't have to? :thumbsup:

 

BTW, We do have a way for you to pay directly and never see the advertising if you prefer. Look at the top of the page for the 'Buy Premium' tab - It comes with some other benefits as well. :yes:

 

Here is a link that describes how a CDN works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

[d181sp1]

In response to post #19675129.

Yea, Dallas is a total wash. But so are the others unless I choose the CDN one. So long as I don't log into the site, I can download just fine though from wherever it snags files from. But if I log in, only CDN.

Edit- I only use manual download, no NMM. Edited November 4, 2014 by d181sp1

[ramakgaming]

Don't know what happened but the entire website was not accessible for a little bit. But glad it's all sorted out now.

 

Before that happened though I had downloaded around 20 mods, no problems, no hiccups at all.

 

Just wanted to let you know. The CDN obviously works well for me. In fact, I think I've stated before that the downloads are faster now, than they have ever been. Those around 20 or so mods that I downloaded, were so quick it gave me time to get up, walk to the kitchen, and pour a glass of milk and walk back. Which before I would not have been able to do, around 20 mods would have taken around 25-30 and sometimes 45 minutes because before it'd either fail or hangups for some odd reason. It no longer does any of that, and things are perfect with the downloads.

 

I don't know if being a paid user of the site makes any 'major' differences or not, as I just don't understand numbers - but I'm happy with it, nothing to complain about. Thanks.