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[Thandal]

@rick0307; See PM reply.

[YellowEagle]

Ok since i bought Premium all downloads have slowed to a crawl, i have used the tester and it just gets a 404 server error, have a pic if you want it. I bought 3 months of premium won't buy anymore if this keeps up, this was about 6 weeks ago. Have had intermittent downloads, slow downloads. Corrupt downloads.

 

I'm on At&t DSL and have their fastest internet for my area. 6MB, yeah i know not the fastest, but the best i can get here. and the downloads use to not take 20 min's to download either.

 

It also won't let me use the Texas download Server now since i bought premium only the CDN downloads. I'm in Oklahoma and Texas is the closest Server. It has taken 20 min's to download a small mod, that was just a few megs. and later it might download just fine though since i have bought Premium it seems all the mods are all really slow now.

 

When i bought the premium the first time around it did this to, and every time i tried to get a download of a mod it redirected me to the pick a game page to download from instead of taking me to the file to download even though i was in the mods readme area i wanted. I would click on the file tab and end up in the Pick a game area. That seems fixed now.

 

I've used the Nexus for years without all the hassles this has become, and i don't mind supporting if i can. I'm and Old gamer and play Mainly AAA games. Done a lot of mods myself in the past for some games.

 

Understand i can't put this in the Forum for it, as it's Locked.

 

And this seemed the only place i can put it. I have cleaned my Browser and even completely reset it to default. Both of them, thinking it was on my end. I don't have the problem any where else so it has to be something with the Nexus.

[MrMason]

Hi YellowEagle,

 

That does seem to be a strange problem.

 

In your preferences what do you have set as your primary server?

 

I would strongly suggest, that even as a Premium user - you use the CDN service. As a Premium user you get unlimited speeds from this, and it almost always quicker than our download servers.

 

Can you see if you get a faster speed from the CDN than from the Texas server and let me know ?

[YellowEagle]

To begin with i can't use the Texas Server now, the link doesn't work. When i go to download a mod, it gives me a choice on what server, I click on the Texas link, it doesn't work now. I use to have that set in my Preferences to. The Texas Server is the closest to my Location and should also have the least traffic in comparison to CDN.

 

I have read your notes that you have sent out on the massive downloads that have also flooded the Servers. Causing CDN's downloads to slow. I figured this might be the cause. That the network was being flooded. Though this could also be a bad node between me and the Server. Or the system has me throttled which is the more likely Culprit.

 

The Site has also become unresponsive at times. Don't have this problem anywhere else, I have friends who also have said the same thing when they go to the Site and try to download. Looking at a screenshot on a mod, these use to pop right up now i have to wait till it loads some times for a min or 2. Sometimes they won't even pop up. We are all Central US

 

I have waited on downloading for Skyrim any new Mods for this Game. I'm downloading for Fallout 4.

 

I have been using CDN as the download Server since i can't access Texas anymore. for the last couple of months.

 

CDN seems to be really slow after i got Premium. Before it was a lot faster on downloads. When it takes me 20 min's to download a 156 Meg file from CDN then that's really slow considering i can download a Gig in that same time from somewhere else. ( And that's from the other side of the Planet from me ) I have also noticed even a 10 meg has taken 10 min's or more to download. Some times i will get a fast download, Most times not. The download speeds are not consistent.

 

I have also Checked with my Provider and done Speed test's with their Speed Tools and Speed test.net they are basicly the same. I test using a test server from Wichita Texas and from Springfield Miss. These are major Hubs. and give pretty consistant readings. I have done this for Years. I do regular Speed tests

 

Are you sure the system is not throttling my connection down with the Download Server.

 

Has the system Glitched ?

 

Has it dumped me in the Slow lane ?

 

Will Test it today and try to download a couple of Mods. Will let you know the outcome.

 

Thank You for taking the Time to look into this. I know how busy you can be, having run Gaming Servers, Forums, Gaming Platforms, and Com systems. in the past i know how much work it is. Now i play for Fun. Who Knows i may even start modding again. (Though my Mods are for disabled people mostly so they can play games they other wise couldn't.)

[MrMason]

Hi YellowEage,

 

The current CDN system has no slow-down on it - it's free to go as fast as it possibly can!

 

We cap non-premium user's speed on the CDN so that they are limited on a per file basis.

 

The CDN will automagically choose the closest location to you, and should always be as fast as the premium download servers because the CDN has locations in the same places as the premium download servers!

 

The website itself is hosted totally separate to the files and the CDN, so there should be no common theme in them being slow for you.

 

Do you have any other devices are your location, such as another computer or laptop you can check to make sure there isn't something strange going on ?

 

Thanks

[Trosski]

since this past weekend, I have been having issues uploading mods. the regular uploader tells me that the upload succeeded with 0 KB, and the old uploader seems to work, but users are telling me that they are receiving a 404 error. If I use the new uploader, and then switch to the old uploader before submitting it seems to work for the most part, but even that seems to be hit or miss. my file is only 15KB. Am I just doing something wrong? I read on that wiki page link that a new uploader is in the pipeline... do we have an ETA?

[MrMason]

Hi Trosski,

 

Please can you let me know the original filename you are attempting to upload, and if possible link me to the page ?

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

[YellowEagle]

Ok now the categories section is gone, there's no link in the drop down tab for it .

[M48A5]

Ok now the categories section is gone, there's no link in the drop down tab for it .

Which game?

 

It's there for FO3 and FNV.

[Trosski]

Hi Trosski,

 

Please can you let me know the original filename you are attempting to upload, and if possible link me to the page ?

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

Yes. The names of the original files i had issues uploading were Finch Elevator.7z, and Graygarden Elevator.7z. The mod pages are here, and here.

 

It took a couple of tries to get the file to upload properly, and I have already removed the copies that didn't work. I didn't want users to accidentally download the one that didn't work.

I don't know exactly how I got them to finally upload, but I think it was a combination of making an update to the non-working version, and using the new uploader, and then switching to the old uploader after receiving the message that the file uploaded successfully with 0 KB, then submitting. if I used just the old uploader, or just the new one it seemed to not upload properly. I'm not sure, but i may have also had to check the remove old file box too... It's hard to remember, because I had to upload a couple of times each. I have never had this issue before, so I am usually just on auto pilot for the check boxes when I do an upload.

 

Edit: Also... When I tried deleting the old file first, and re-uploading a fresh one with the same version number... It said it was successful, but it had the same issue.