Content Updating VERY slow - TS12. Why?

[tirediron]

It's been a longgggggggg time since I've been here, hoping I've posted this in an appropiate forum. I've just received my copy of TS12, and so far, I'm enjoying it, BUT I noticed that the content updater listed 300+ items to update and decided to just have it update all of them. I selected 'Update all' and put my computer down and let it go. I was absolutely baffled when I came back a couple of hours later to find out that less than 20 assets had been downloaded/updated. I watched one this morning (2TE116-1673 A) take somewhere in the area of 40 minutes!!!

I'm running TS12 on a Windows Vista laptop with lots of CPU power, RAM, and HDD space as well as a high-speed Internet connection. There is nothing else using my bandwidth right now, so.... is it normal for these downloads to go so slowly, or is there a problem, or a way I can increase the data throughput?

Thanks!

 

[shaneturner12]

Unless you have a First Class Ticket, your downloads are restricted to ~4KB a second, which is very slow.

Shane

P.S. It looks like you were using the old forum last. If that is the case, welcome to the new forums.

 

[clam1952]

Also a lot of items are going to be considerably larger these days.

 

[tirediron]

Thanks guys... 4Kb/s???? Good grief, that's more than a bit ridiculous. I figured the assets were a lot larger now, but I didn't realize they throttled the speed by that much. I'll debate the merits of buying an FCT after I've had time to play with TS12 for a while.

Cheers

 

[RRSignal]

FWIW, it's well worth it, and goes to support our hobby.

The process might be slightly less-bad if you do the updates via CMP, since you can easily stop and resume updates.