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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Wii U - Extremely Slow Download Speeds. WHY?!

chapset on 19 November 2012
wfz said:
chapset said:
are you using wifi?? if you are you should try using your Ethernet port at the back of your console it's much faster


Very funny. 

 

The initial download took me around 45 minutes as well, but I was at my friend's house when i did it and his internet is much slower than mine. I just checked my DL speeds through Steam and I appear to be downloading just as fast as ever, yet Nintendo speeds are extremely slow. Oh well, NSMBU just finished so the crisis is over for now. 

I hope this throttling (if that's what it is) stops soon. 


Maybe their servers are overloaded with all the people trying to download the patch and all the new games since it's a console launch or maybe this will the speed you will get through the gen, for exemple, it took me 2hours to download the pirated version of starcraft 2 on the piratebay yet it took  6hours for the legit version using blizzard servers and they were roughly the same size



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wfz on 19 November 2012

My router is pretty damn good, as far as I'm aware. Also, the router is mere INCHES away from the Wii U system, so it can't be interference. If anything, latency would be hampered by a wireless connection, but I don't see why download speeds would be. I'm not the biggest techie around, but eh.

Router: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004PA2B6C/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Also, my download speed with other wireless devices (which are farther away from the router) aren't impaired.

 

EDIT: Damn, it's taking forever to install Mario on my Wii's internal space. It's been installing for 10 minutes so far and it has 5 minutes left. 15 minutes to install, is that... is that normal?

 

Is something wrong with my console? =/



Chevinator123 on 19 November 2012

Are you serious? about a year ago we had a real shitty router for like 2 years and the download speeds on my PS3 were less then 100kb/sec i had to leave my PS3 on over night to download stuff

although now i get about 500-700kb with the new router, i now praise these speeds



osed125 on 19 November 2012

The servers are probably saturated at this moment. Remember that this is Nintendo's first entry in a more sophisticated online service, so it's normal to see some issues, specially since the thing launch yesterday. 



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Heavenly_King on 19 November 2012
wfz said:

My router is pretty damn good, as far as I'm aware. Also, the router is mere INCHES away from the Wii U system, so it can't be interference. If anything, latency would be hampered by a wireless connection, but I don't see why download speeds would be. I'm not the biggest techie around, but eh.

Router: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004PA2B6C/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Also, my download speed with other wireless devices (which are farther away from the router) aren't impaired.

EDIT: Damn, it's taking forever to install Mario on my Wii's internal space. It's been installing for 10 minutes so far and it has 5 minutes left. 15 minutes to install, is that... is that normal?

Is something wrong with my console? =/

I guess the servers are the issue then.

Maybe with an external USB HDD the install would be faster.

because..........maybe the internal memory is as fast as the **cough RAM cough** XD



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okr on 20 November 2012

45 min for 1.7 GB? That's nothing.
It took me more than 24 hours to download the 6.2 GB Okami HD file to my PS3. I'm not kidding.

When I saw your thread I took one of those speedtests. It said: "230kB/s (1840kBit/s) download speed", "81 of other users have a faster connection than you" (I'm surprised it wasn't 99%). I need faster internetz. Quickly.



pokoko on 20 November 2012

I doubt that it's related, but it seems quite a few people are having trouble connecting their Wii U to their router. I've seen a couple of articles about it. Wireless router, that is, as I don't think anyone is having trouble connecting via the Wii U's eth ... yeah, well, screw you guys.



Mohasus on 20 November 2012
Mr Khan said:
Also, 3.5 MB out of steam? Only time i downloaded a game off steam, i got 80KBps


Your connection's fault probably.



oniyide on 20 November 2012
chapset said:
are you using wifi?? if you are you should try using your Ethernet port at the back of your console it's much faster

LMAO!



Heavenly_King on 20 November 2012
wfz said:

This is driving me insane now. I put up with the slow speeds yesterday, but still tonight I am downloading things at roughly 500KBps, when I usually have a download speed of 3.5MBps on my PC (with Steam, etc.).

Why is it taking me 45 minutes to download a 1700MB game such as NSMBU? What the hell, Nintendo. Does anyone have any answers or knowledge on this subject?

 

(1735000KB / 60seconds) / 45 mins = 642.5KBps ... 1/6 and up to 1/7 my actual download speed.

 

:(

 

(Pre-emptively stating this: Please don't turn this into a digital vs. physical thread)


I recommend you to not buy any other game from the store.  Because if your console dies, you are screwed.

http://gamingeverything.com/33661/not-even-nintendo-customer-support-can-transfer-nintendo-network-ids/



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