Fileplanet unfortunately kind of shafts non-paying users on the speed end of things. You can try the torrent downloader, but bittorrent can also be unpredictable speed-wise (also you would have to start over).
As of a couple hours ago I was helping a friend get the torrent up and going because of the same issue for him with FP.
There was a few hundred seeds and nearly 10k peers at that point. Last I talked to him he was running 150-300k or so.
With those many clients up, you should in theory max your download speed if you throttle your upload appropriately. Most unbalanced home .net connections don't handle multiple traffic sources well, you can thank your ISP for that...its not just the bandwidth of your upstream.
Fileplanet seems to shaft paying customers as well.
Made a 1 month subscrip just to get this thing faster.
Now I'm getting about 100k on a 3Mb line,
LAME!
I've been downloading for most of the night - when I wake up it's at 40.00 KB estimated another 7 hours to finish. WTF? Before I went to sleep it was at 400.00 KB (midnight GMT time). :eek:
(Living in UK so using the international one annoyingly. Would have thought they would seperate it further.)
*EDIT: Make that 20.00 KB at times making the estimated time to about 5/6 PM my time - so will have taken me 18 hours to download. Jesus even my WoW Patchs didn't that long. How bad is it going to be on patch days?!*
am currently downlaoding using torrent, fileplanet did not even start it stays stuck at preparing downlaod for 40 minutes now. its aroudn 150 kb/s at this time. But drops to 10kb/s aevery now and then. (20mb line)
I've been a fileplanet subscriber for a while and it really doesn't mean what it used to. Originally I would get 500-800k/s from them which isn't great for a 20meg line but its not terrible.
In the last 6 months however I've yet to get a better than 250k/s rate and more often than not including the whole 8gb ST download it failed to get over 170k/s and averaged something like 70-80k/s
Needless to say I don't think I will be renewing my subscription.
yea the downloader is terrible stopped at 4% when i left it running overnight. i moved to the torrent and im getting a much faster download speed. hopefully its done before i go to work today.
Im a bit annoyed here but ill try and stay passive...
Ive been downloading now for 24+ hours and have only hit 10% of the game. Ive tried various methods of downloading the game (bit-torrent, fileplanet and directly from this website) and im STILL getting highest speeds of 100kb/s which lasts for about 5 minutes then it plunges to 10kb/s and then after a further 10-15 mins ends at a lowly 00.04kb/s or something similar.
Is there really no other way I can get this damn thing? At this rate ill just have to wait for the game to be released and completely miss the beta and head-start.
I was hoping that having today and tomorrow as my days off id be able to play but the 5 week estimated download time is telling me i wont be anywhere near playing...
Well, I started DL'g the game last ngiht about 8pm...right now it is almsot 9am and I have about 80.2% of the dl and it is sitting there, not doing much and hasn't for the last 45 minutes or so, this is so ridculous it is not funny. Call me sorely dissapointed in Cryptic/Atari's ability to impliment stable and faster download servers. :<
I tried firghting FP all night and was surprised to see a huge 13 percent complete after running all night... I think I need to switch to a faster method to be sure I do not miss the beta.
I understand that the severs are prob loaded but maybe a torrent is the way to go? Could anyone tell me how download one? I have never done one before...
I run vista 64 bit and was getting 50 mg to .05 mg on fp... I hope this is faster
I went with D2D....Fastest download of a game, ever. I usually get around roughly 500kbps download speeds from good servers. With this I was getting 800kbps +. This isn't a rub it in your fact post btw, but you might consider going with D2D.
Well, i pre-ordered from direct2drive last night, and the 8 gigs took 4 hours to download on their servers, got a 5 mb connection, but am up in the middle of nowhere in quebec, so I think the 500ish kb/s i was getting was pretty damn good.
So if you havent pre-ordered, maybe try this is you were going to anyways, because it seems that at this point you may not get to play for a while anyways.
I started downloading yesterday from FilePlanet when Cryptic made it all official and stuff. With their free accessI was getting 0.02 kb/s or there abouts. Obviously, that's just crazy.
So I sprang for their one month subscription thinger (something like US $7.00, iirc). Now I'm averaging about 75 kb/s.
Which still isn't, you know, wowing me or anything. But after 16 or so hours I'm at 51%. Assuming nothing weird happens, I should be done sometime in the wee hours of wednesday morning. Which isn't so bad that I'm upset.
I've also never done bit torrent. Started poking around online, found a few torrent clients, looked at them...and decided it wasn't worth sacrificing the progress I've already made to load new TRIBBLE that wants to unmoderated access to the net onto my computer.
But that's me. I remember when you actually had to have a car and drive someplace to play games with your friends.
I have beta tested alot of MMO's in my time (Fall Earth, LotRO, WAR, ect) and played just about every other mmo out there and I have never, NEVER come accross suck a cluster-beep- in a company getting their game out to the open (or closed for that matter) beta testers. This is just plain insanity. I have been trying to download since yesterday afternoon and have been rewarded first with FilePlanet opening its download manager and taking 15 min "preparing file for download" and then getting an error saying the server is overloaded. Tried every free server download with the same result. Then I finually started to get the file to get past the prep stage to get in line, only to wait until it was my turn and then have it get a few minutes into the DL and then fail with message that the download is corrupt. Finually last night I get fileplanet to start downloading at zero dark 30 (at 20 kb a sec...thats blazing...*sarcasim*) and go to bed. I wake up to find that the download failed 535mb into the file. Thats just stellar. Now keep in mind that I didnt just limit myself to the fileplanet download method either. I tried using bit torrent, which I use quite regularly with no problems. I got the torrent from the official star trek online site and start bit torrent and.....nothing. 116 peers and 0 seeders. That continued until this morning at ten o'clock. I also, in my desperation to get some method of download (both because of my geekish need to play the game and the fact that file had open slighed and challenged me just as if it had walked over and slapped my face with its digital glove) I tried the sights "star trek online downloader" that it had posted as a last resort for all us chumps trying to get the file. This method did indeed smoothly open and start downloading, but at a rate that after 4 hours yeilded 0.01% of the download complete. At that rate I would die a very old man with it still not finished. SO finually at about 10 am this morning fileplanet actually (praise jesus) actually started working, abait at squirts of 0.00 to 52 kb per sec which will put the down load at several days from finishing....but at least its working. AND bit torrent started working with 6 seeds and 44 peers connected to give me a 160-185 kbps download speed that will finish in approx 11 hours from now. Thats if the gods are happy and the planets alined and bit torrent stays stable with seeders connected. SO finually I get to my point....WHAT THE *&^$#@%% WAS THE DEVS THINKING!!!!! (or were they not) when they set up the method of destributing the open beta client? I have to say this is the most epic fail I have seen since matrix online came out ( and that was bad). Heres to hoping that the game is much much better and that patches are either handled different or nonexistant. And Devs.....:mad: shame on you.
Fileplanet unfortunately kind of shafts non-paying users on the speed end of things. You can try the torrent downloader, but bittorrent can also be unpredictable speed-wise (also you would have to start over).
Is there some LOGICAL reason Cryptic waited so long to let us have information on downloading? I thought for sure you would have a quick access (maybe an e-mail to those who had redeemed their pre-order keys with either the data or a link to where we could download it quickly) route, but yours is as slow as Fileplanet's.
I started downloading from Fileplanet at 10 PM Central on Monday. Fifteen and one-half hours later, I'm at 28.39%. At this rate, it will be THURSDAY NIGHT before the download is complete.
yea the downloader is terrible stopped at 4% when i left it running overnight. i moved to the torrent and im getting a much faster download speed. hopefully its done before i go to work today.
Can either of you walk me through this? I downloaded the BitTorrent thing and in the "search the internet" area, I typed in Star Trek Online and it brought me to a BitTorrent-related site that said I need to pay to use it. :eek:
Is there not a way to get above the 30-45 kb/s (preferably anything 100+) withouth having to fork out money?
Is there some LOGICAL reason Cryptic waited so long to let us have information on downloading? I thought for sure you would have a quick access (maybe an e-mail to those who had redeemed their pre-order keys with either the data or a link to where we could download it quickly) route, but yours is as slow as Fileplanet's.
I started downloading from Fileplanet at 10 PM Central on Monday. Fifteen and one-half hours later, I'm at 28.39%. At this rate, it will be THURSDAY NIGHT before the download is complete.
Can either of you walk me through this? I downloaded the BitTorrent thing and in the "search the internet" area, I typed in Star Trek Online and it brought me to a BitTorrent-related site that said I need to pay to use it. :eek:
Is there not a way to get above the 30-45 kb/s (preferably anything 100+) withouth having to fork out money?
Thanks. While my jaw dropped at the initial 2y20w climb, I figured it'd decrease. In about 10-15 minutes I was down to 3-4d, but now I'm jumping between 2d9h and 3d0h. I briefly saw 2d0h, which would be an improvement over Fileplanet.
Now, if only I could lose an ETA day for every hour I'm using this....
I would also go for Torrent because of this. A multipoint download will be faster now.
Ditto. My ETA since my last post (21 minutes ago, two posts up) has dropped to 19 1/2 hours! Sad that I'm excited about that considering I was originally hoping for a 10-14 hour download. lol
Players who pre-ordered the game from Atari.com should use the FilePlanet download or the "Star Trek Online Downloader" link to download the STO Open Beta client.
Fileplanet unfortunately kind of shafts non-paying users on the speed end of things. You can try the torrent downloader, but bittorrent can also be unpredictable speed-wise (also you would have to start over).
so how can you charge the $5 bucks for a digital download?
1. Use torrent
2. In torrent client (uTorrent preffered) turn on: DHT, Peer Exchange, Local Peer Discovery
3. Set max peers per torrent to 500-1000 or 100000 (global max peers 100000) if your router can handle it ;p
4. Pray your torrent client connects to some fast peers
I downloaded my client yesterday in about 4,5h , average speed 450kB/s
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There was a few hundred seeds and nearly 10k peers at that point. Last I talked to him he was running 150-300k or so.
With those many clients up, you should in theory max your download speed if you throttle your upload appropriately. Most unbalanced home .net connections don't handle multiple traffic sources well, you can thank your ISP for that...its not just the bandwidth of your upstream.
gluck
Made a 1 month subscrip just to get this thing faster.
Now I'm getting about 100k on a 3Mb line,
LAME!
Might depend which server you hit. I'm in Ohio, and I used their East Coast free(queued) server.
(Living in UK so using the international one annoyingly. Would have thought they would seperate it further.)
*EDIT: Make that 20.00 KB at times making the estimated time to about 5/6 PM my time - so will have taken me 18 hours to download. Jesus even my WoW Patchs didn't that long. How bad is it going to be on patch days?!*
I have canceled the File Planet download, will not try them again...
In the last 6 months however I've yet to get a better than 250k/s rate and more often than not including the whole 8gb ST download it failed to get over 170k/s and averaged something like 70-80k/s
Needless to say I don't think I will be renewing my subscription.
And there were plenty of ppl downloading at once there as well
Ive been downloading now for 24+ hours and have only hit 10% of the game. Ive tried various methods of downloading the game (bit-torrent, fileplanet and directly from this website) and im STILL getting highest speeds of 100kb/s which lasts for about 5 minutes then it plunges to 10kb/s and then after a further 10-15 mins ends at a lowly 00.04kb/s or something similar.
Is there really no other way I can get this damn thing? At this rate ill just have to wait for the game to be released and completely miss the beta and head-start.
I was hoping that having today and tomorrow as my days off id be able to play but the 5 week estimated download time is telling me i wont be anywhere near playing...
Join the torrent and help!
And BTW I'm getting 4Mbit right now.
I tried firghting FP all night and was surprised to see a huge 13 percent complete after running all night... I think I need to switch to a faster method to be sure I do not miss the beta.
I understand that the severs are prob loaded but maybe a torrent is the way to go? Could anyone tell me how download one? I have never done one before...
I run vista 64 bit and was getting 50 mg to .05 mg on fp... I hope this is faster
Thanks much for any help
Hope to venture into space soon!
Matt
So if you havent pre-ordered, maybe try this is you were going to anyways, because it seems that at this point you may not get to play for a while anyways.
So I sprang for their one month subscription thinger (something like US $7.00, iirc). Now I'm averaging about 75 kb/s.
Which still isn't, you know, wowing me or anything. But after 16 or so hours I'm at 51%. Assuming nothing weird happens, I should be done sometime in the wee hours of wednesday morning. Which isn't so bad that I'm upset.
I've also never done bit torrent. Started poking around online, found a few torrent clients, looked at them...and decided it wasn't worth sacrificing the progress I've already made to load new TRIBBLE that wants to unmoderated access to the net onto my computer.
But that's me. I remember when you actually had to have a car and drive someplace to play games with your friends.
I started downloading from Fileplanet at 10 PM Central on Monday. Fifteen and one-half hours later, I'm at 28.39%. At this rate, it will be THURSDAY NIGHT before the download is complete.
Can either of you walk me through this? I downloaded the BitTorrent thing and in the "search the internet" area, I typed in Star Trek Online and it brought me to a BitTorrent-related site that said I need to pay to use it. :eek:
Is there not a way to get above the 30-45 kb/s (preferably anything 100+) withouth having to fork out money?
Go here: http://www.startrekonline.com/download
and click torrent and it should start up for you.
This is using the FP download tool through IE and letting it pick the server, couldn't see any way to choose in this.
Now, if only I could lose an ETA day for every hour I'm using this....
I would also go for Torrent because of this. A multipoint download will be faster now.
YMMV.
so how can you charge the $5 bucks for a digital download?
1. Use torrent
2. In torrent client (uTorrent preffered) turn on: DHT, Peer Exchange, Local Peer Discovery
3. Set max peers per torrent to 500-1000 or 100000 (global max peers 100000) if your router can handle it ;p
4. Pray your torrent client connects to some fast peers
I downloaded my client yesterday in about 4,5h , average speed 450kB/s
Until then, you are stuck with everyone else that wants (contrary to former statements) what we paid for.
I remember installing games and waiting several hours for patches to download, this isn't taking much longer (yet).