Slow Download Speeds - SWTOR DOWNLOAD

[WreckIItRalph]

Hello :eahigh_file: ,

I am currently downloading SWTOR to try it out but I am not getting full download speeds, my download speed is 30Mbits down but I only seem to be getting barely 10Mbit.

This is really annoying considering that instead of having to wait around 2 hours for SWTOR to download I have to wait almost 8 hours.

I know it is not my network since I tested downloading something on steam and I seem to be getting full speeds.

Would appreciate any input on how to solve this, cheers!

[proxos666]

@WreckIItRalph

This will be governed by the location of the CDN and the ISPs pipe size to that location, to give you an idea last year I was with iiNet here in Australia and average download rate was 400 KB/s, I then moved due to work and went with Telstra and now download rate is up over 10MB/s.

Now what governs the CDN location is the ISPs DNS server, and using a different DNS server in a different region will point to a different CDN.

see image for example

As to why, Telstra's DNS points to the below IP location and is a local akamai cache, iiNet's DNS on the other hand points over overseas to a footprint server and this hinders the download rate across the international link.

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup cdn-patch.swtor.com
Server: dsldevice.gateway
Address: 10.0.0.138

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: a56.d.akamai.net
Addresses: 72.247.223.50
72.247.223.34
Aliases: cdn-patch.swtor.com
gslb-patch.swtor.biowareonline.net
cdn-patch.swtor.com.edgesuite.net

C:\Windows\system32>tracert 72.247.223.50

Tracing route to a72-247-223-50.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [72.247.223.50]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 5 ms 4 ms 2 ms dsldevice.gateway [10.0.0.138]
2 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms 58.162.26.70
3 7 ms 5 ms 4 ms 144.130.208.206
4 6 ms 11 ms 13 ms 172.18.239.5
5 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms a72-247-223-50.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [72.247.223.50]

Trace complete.

[bolivarvendetta]

on blizzards battle net you can fully customize your download speed. i am forced to download a game at 3mb/s when my computer and internet are capable of much higher. it's a real shame that something is not being done about this.