Excessively long upload times

[Athelbras]

For the past two months or so the upload time for a new mod that is minuscule in size has tended to be upwards of half an hour to a full hour. This was not the case in past years, or even during the early part of this year -- upload times were relatively quick and quite reasonable then. But now the situation is quite abysmal, with uploads barely inching forward then stalling out with no progress for significant periods of time, then repeating the inching/stalling.

 

Is Nexus Mods overloaded with too many games and too many downloaders? Does Nexus Mods need to upgrade its infrastructure to provide better service to Mod Uploaders (us folks from whom Nexus Mods derives its reason for being)?

 

Hopefully someone will investigate uploading performance, if that is not happening already.

 

Regards,

 

Athelbras

Edited July 1, 2019 by Athelbras

[Athelbras]

Here is an example from this evening (with similar results occurring back in May and June):

 

Uploading a 3 MB file (very tiny) creeps and stalls its way very slowly to roughly 90% during a period of half an hour, then stalls there at 90% for the next half hour thereafter. I abort the upload after waiting a full hour and try again. The same thing happens once more.

 

In the past, a 3 MB file would upload in mere moments. Because it is tiny (the only thing smaller being a file size of Kilobytes). But for a while now it seems as if Nexus Mods struggles with even the smallest of files and yields upload times that are more appropriate for Gigabyte files.

 

Upon rare occasion a small upload does succeeds after taking half, three-quarters, or a full hour.

[Athelbras]

FYI,

 

It appears to be an issue when using Google's Chrome browser. Switching to Microsoft's Internet Explorer resulted in reasonable average upload times for the 11 files that I just now uploaded in succession. Whereas Chrome continued to struggle with inordinately long completion times (or never completed at all).

 

So perhaps something in Chrome changed for the worse a couple of months ago?

[Pickysaurus]

If you got normal upload speeds in a different browser, that generally points to something in your local setup. Can you try disabling all your add ons in Chrome and try uploading a file?

[Athelbras]

Here is a list of the Google Chrome extensions that were present. All were enabled. I disabled them.

Google Docs Offline

Logitech Smooth Scrolling

Norton Security Toolbar

Norton Safe Search as default for Chrome

Windows Defender Browser Protection

I then cleared all Chrome browsing data, restarted Chrome, confirmed those extensions were still disabled with no other extensions present, disabled Norton's Auto-Protect and Smart Firewall, then restarted Chrome once more. I think I did all that could be done, although I might be mistaken.

The result was the same abysmal upload performance.

So unless there is something more that I could do to isolate and identify the root cause, this is then just an FYI for other players using Chrome.

[Pickysaurus]

From my previous experience in tech support, Norton tends to cause lots of odd problems. I will make note of this as you're not the first one to report slow speeds in certain situations. I'm afraid it's not something we've been able to replicate.