Slow download speed

[viruk]

I just paid for a month of platinum and I'm really really disappointed to find that the download speed from this forum is extremely slow.. its taken me an hour to download less than 15 minutes worth of video. Any other website can download much faster, I could stream a 15 minute video in only a couple minutes of loading normally. It's slow to the point that I don't want to bother using the forum.

Any suggestions? I love the content here but am upset about the speed, I feel like I wasted my money.

[The Shape]

Hey nice to hear from you after 5 years here....and it's a complaint. Notice you are also viewing a thread of mine at this very moment but I just can't seem to remember you ever saying anything....

Onto your problem....what do you have? Who is your provider? I have a medium range DSL and I can download much faster than the speed you are indicating. There are many factors that go into how quickly someone can download something. Feel like you wasted your money? That is a shame but I find this site very fast, as fast as any other place I might go.

[The Shape]

http://www.facialforum.net/showpost....98&postcount=7 I just downloaded this vid which is 21 minutes 39 seconds. 248mb and 13 parts HJ. I downloaded it, joined it with HJ and am watching it now. I started my download at 5:05 it is now 5:13

8 minutes total....so don't know what to say to you other than you should not assume it's a forum problem, sounds like a end user problem here.

By the way, thanks Rembo for the great vid

[viruk]

What's with the defensive reply? It really doesn't seem like a very nice way to treat a paying member of the site. I said that I like the content on the site, it's just the speed that is causing issues for me. My provider is Rogers and most sites load quickly, it just seems the downloads on here are slower than expected. What factors would determine how quickly I can download? Any suggestions on what the problem might be?

[pulicaus]

You may have other issues, ISP firewall's, router, wifi connectivity etc. I've had no speed issues with the site.

[The Shape]

No defensive reply, read my last post. You come out of the woodwork and spout off about slow download speeds as if it's a problem with the forum. You don't even consider it could be on your end, you just assume.

I just proved to you the forum is as fast as it ever was. BTW, paying members can contribute and comment to what they download as well as non paying members. Check your browser, do a speed test, what were you downloading the "under 15 minutes of vid" that took an hour?

To be honest here your initial post was ignorant. I'm not calling you an ignorant person because I don't know you, but a new member could come across your post and just take what you say as a bad point of the forum. There are no speed issues here, it's on your end dude.

[viruk]

I asked for suggestions how I could solve the problem. Forget it, I won't be paying for another subscription either way. For future reference you might not want to be so rude to your members. I signed up after re discovering the site and immediately you attack me after a tech request...

Whether the speed is slow or not I think this post is very telling about the moderators on this site. I hope next time you get a tech support request you can relax and not take it so personally.

[The Shape]

Your loss, this is the internet, I don't take anything personally. Your post was a misinformed opinion that this site is slow. You talked right off the bat about wasted money and slow speeds and as it turns out you didn't even know what you were talking about.

Some people have a problem admitting they are wrong, this wasn't a "support request" it was a post from someone who assumed that the forum is slow and wanted to complain about it.

You are the one that was rude and if I joined a site and it seemed slow I would ask what normal speeds are before jumping to conclusions and making incorrect assumptions.

You were complaining, not trying to figure out what a problem could be.

BTW, the rest of the mods on this site are actually good people.....I'm the asshole


"I just paid for a month of platinum and I'm really really disappointed to find that the download speed from this forum is extremely slow.. its taken me an hour to download less than 15 minutes worth of video. Any other website can download much faster, I could stream a 15 minute video in only a couple minutes of loading normally. It's slow to the point that I don't want to bother using the forum.

Any suggestions? I love the content here but am upset about the speed, I feel like I wasted my money."

[pulicaus]

Dude Viruk.... relax your forehead man. The troubleshooting needs to be done on your end and like i said there are a lot of variables that come in play when it comes to speed. You'd need to take a closer look on your end if there is something that could be affecting your download. Start by power-cycling the modem.

[dev.mem]

I just paid for a month of platinum and I'm really really disappointed to find that the download speed from this forum is extremely slow.. its taken me an hour to download less than 15 minutes worth of video. Any other website can download much faster, I could stream a 15 minute video in only a couple minutes of loading normally. It's slow to the point that I don't want to bother using the forum.

Any suggestions? I love the content here but am upset about the speed, I feel like I wasted my money.

I'm a member for more than 2 years and I'm a permanent traveler that never stays more than 1 to 3 month in the same place.
I used FF from almost 20 countries, countless cities and ISP. Using many network equipements and sometime my own AirPlay router.

I downloaded video from modern Internet infrastructure, such as here in Romania where I can get 2 Mbps download speed, when I download 20 videos simultenously.
To fraudulent Argentinan ISP with ADSL that says it's 5 Mbps, but it's really just 256 Kbps. Where I can only download a maximum of 6 videos in parallels at 200 Kbps.

In Chile, it worked very well, until my ISP upgraded my cablemodem firmware. From that point, when I was downloading at maximum capacity, everything else was so slow that I had to download only very late or very early.

There is so much stuff that can impact your download performance.
And from my own experience, I always found the problem to be my ISP or my network gears in the appartement.