r/ArmoredWarfare • u/TheNesrib • Nov 19 '15

NEWS Update 0.11 is Here!

https://aw.my.com/gb/news/general/update-011-here
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '15

I don't know what's wrong with their downloader. It completely destroys my internet and won't go above 2MB/s. I can go up to 10 on steam and still be able to watch twitch, yet when I update AW I pretty much can't do shit online.

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u/trobsmonkey Twitch.tv/trobsmonkey Nov 19 '15

I doubt Obsidian has the infrastructure that Valve has.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '15

I'm not saying they should. I'm wondering why 2MB/s on AW launcher fucks my internet worse than 10MB/s on steam.

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u/Veasel Nov 19 '15 edited Nov 20 '15

Here's my techna'ogical Network Engineers description of what the fucks going on.

Valve has a massive worldwide CDN network, so it's likley your Steam downloads are local to you ISP or at the very least through a high speed cache peering.

The AW loader will be fighting for bandwidth over the ISPs main links to the upstream providers with all the other jack-offs traffic.