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Hi
I m getting incredibly long download times on the new update 811
Has been flipping between 2 days and 8hrs after over 39 mins still saying mostly 7 or 8 hrs.
My internet download speed is 19 Mbps

Surely not that busy.

Mike


Last edited by Mike Head; 12/23/20 03:03 AM.

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Yes indeed. I'm superfast fibre 300mb per second. It's telling me 4hrs to download a 320mb file. For me that should be about 6 seconds.

What a joke. Maybe it's timed to finish Christmas day.


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same for me it is between 6 and 15 kbs
good luck to all.

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Same here. Took a while to download, not normal.

Also one of the new 8th styles is mis-labled.

*_TING8.STY

Ting Triangle Train Trip 8ths-26

Should be Ting Triangle Train Trip 8ths-260 as the demo song loads at 260 BPM


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I'm not seeing any problems right now. Can you try again?


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I have the same problem 11-17 hours. Tried it 1 min ago.


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Hi Andrew

After 4 and ½ HRS still only got 200 mg. so I have aborted and tried again on my main Pc .
Unfortunately it is still reporting time remaining between 2days and 8or 9 hrs.
So some thing a bit odd with the connection to uk it seems.
So far have 7.2 /320MB 14hrs left.

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Thanks Andrew.


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Yes the alternate link was excellent. I have GIG speed and the normal link was at 5 to 6 hours alternating. The link you posted, I got is about 6 seconds!


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Perhaps, someone who is having this problem with the previous link, could run this command at a command prompt and send me your results:

tracert nn.pgmusic.com

Also, is there anyone NOT in Eastern USA, Europe, or UK having this problem?

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The original link is still slow, 7hrs to download. The one above works great and the DL finished in less than 1min. Here's a tracert. Location Sydney, Australia.

>tracert nn.pgmusic.com

Tracing route to nn.pgmusic.com [64.40.109.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms ARCHER_VR1600V
2 13 ms 10 ms 11 ms 10.20.26.64
3 17 ms 16 ms 15 ms syd-gls-har-int1-he0-3-0-2.tpgi.com.au [203.221.3.3]
4 161 ms 162 ms 163 ms las-b24-link.telia.net [213.248.95.232]
5 189 ms 194 ms 191 ms las-b21-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.136.46]
6 161 ms 166 ms 164 ms sjo-b21-link.ip.twelve99.net [62.115.116.40]
7 192 ms 193 ms 190 ms rc1bb-be90-1.vc.shawcable.net [66.163.76.65]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * ^C

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Great new link

less than 3mins thanks Andrew

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Quote:
Here's a tracert. Location Sydney, Australia


Thanks for that.


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No issues here with the first link, then again - it's late in the evening smile


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Yep, still a problem here in South Carolina this morning (Dec24th) On my crummy AT&T 30Mbps download speeds, the original download link estimated over 19 hours to download the file.

On the alternate link that Andrew posted the download time was less than 2 minutes.

Thanks for posting that Andrew...I was ready to give up on the newest update.

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Here in US Central Time Zone, the original link alternated between 14 hours and 2 days for download completion - then self-canceled, noting "network problems". The alternate link was fine - downloaded in less than 30 seconds. Time tried original link three times: 1:06 pm; 1:11 pm; and 1:22 pm. Alternate link downloaded at 1:27 in 30 seconds with no issues.


EDIT: It took this message almost 2 minutes to post after clicking onto the "submit" tab. My Internet speed clocked at 67 mps.

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