I couldn't find a glitch/problem/question area... but I suppose this is the correct forum. Anyway, I went to download a ROM and it said the speed for the NA server was "200 kb/s" and EU was "250 kb/s" I clicked the NA server and started my download, it was going at 250, not 200. I don't know if it's not supposed to be 250, or if the graphic was just incorrect.
Server speeds vary all the time. I don't know much about download servers, but it might be possible you started downloading when it was limited to 200, but the limit rose to 250 during your download. And this kind of thread would usually be in Site Support.
It's just the program you use not counting properly. Our server will refuse to send more than 200kb every second, no matter how your program counts it.
I Went on a downloading spree of PS1 games the past couple days and spent almost all of my 20k or so built up points (before buying Premium today). During that massive download-fest i noticed that Firefox was downloading files much faster than the said limit was... up to 500+k/s (and times actually did reflect this as being completely correct) Not a complaint by any means of course, but something to note i assume. *EDIT* Edited for grammatical fix.
You are a premium member. Premium members have no limit set on their downloads other than what the server can handle and what your ISP and the route to the server allows. https://www.romulation.org/buy/premium/
This was when i was not a Premium member. I Just upgraded less than an hour or 2 ago. As a premium member i get 1200+k/s pretty easily.
Well, some programs count incorrectly. Firefox will start downloading a file into cache before you select where you save it. When you finally select a place and it adds it to the download list, it will try to calculate speed and time remaining, based on what it's already downloaded, from that point in time, the speed will be shown much faster than what it actually is to make up for the amount of file already existing.
Yeah, i am aware of all this. But usually it will gradually over time settle down to the accurate speed. Thing is that i was downloading 300-400mb PS1 games at a constant 4-500k/s on occasion. (Not often mind you, but every few games it would do it) If by some unknown to me freak of firefox it mis-reported the speed for the full download length plus downloaded substantially faster (compared to others of the same approximate size going at the normal 200-250k/s) then you got me there.
It still has to do with counting. Our server will fill a buffer of the allowed size, send it and then wait a second before filling it again. This mean it's actually sending at full speed. So browsers will see 800kb/s and then average it out with the 0kb. But sometimes 0kb will be seen as a stalling or whatever and it'll disregard it. Counting is usually only accurate if the download program/browser counts in the same way as the server sends it.
