Re: Slow Download Speeds - SWTOR DOWNLOAD
This will be governed by the location of the CDN and the ISPs pipe size to that location, to give you an idea last year I was with iiNet here in Australia and average download rate was 400 KB/s, I then moved due to work and went with Telstra and now download rate is up over 10MB/s.
Now what governs the CDN location is the ISPs DNS server, and using a different DNS server in a different region will point to a different CDN.
see image for example
As to why, Telstra's DNS points to the below IP location and is a local akamai cache, iiNet's DNS on the other hand points over overseas to a footprint server and this hinders the download rate across the international link.
C:\Windows\system32>nslookup cdn-patch.swtor.com
Server: dsldevice.gateway
Address: 10.0.0.138
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: a56.d.akamai.net
Addresses: 72.247.223.50
72.247.223.34
Aliases: cdn-patch.swtor.com
gslb-patch.swtor.biowareonline.net
cdn-patch.swtor.com.edgesuite.net
C:\Windows\system32>tracert 72.247.223.50
Tracing route to a72-247-223-50.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [72.247.223.50]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 5 ms 4 ms 2 ms dsldevice.gateway [10.0.0.138]
2 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms 58.162.26.70
3 7 ms 5 ms 4 ms 144.130.208.206
4 6 ms 11 ms 13 ms 172.18.239.5
5 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms a72-247-223-50.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [72.247.223.50]
Trace complete.
