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Downloads with DIM - very slooooow

XoechZXoechZ Posts: 1,102
edited December 1969 in The Commons

Hello!

I have a 16 Mbit internet connection via a home router. Everything is fine and stable. But every time I download files via DIM, the connection breaks down. It always starts fast ( about 1.5 Mbyte/s) but slows down very quickly to a few Kbytes/s. Sometimes it completely stops and hangs. I have to click pause and resume several times to download bigger files and it takes a long time until it is complete. Oh, and it does not matter on which time I try it. Morning, evening, day, night, always the same.
DIM (1.1.0.15) is the only application with this problem. When I download something with Internet Explorer, I get stable download speeds between 1.5 and 1.7 Mbyte/s on every website I am downloading from. This is very ok for a 16 Mbit connection. So it cant be my PC or ISP. Whats wrong with DIM?
Or does DIM use different ports than IE? Can I configure my router in a way (like opening special ports) to make DIM downloads faster and more stable?

I hope that someone can help me with this strange problem. Thanks in advance!

Comments

  • jaxprogjaxprog Posts: 312
    edited December 1969

    My DIMM does that too every now and then.. not all the time. There are times when I have to micromanage the download and the installation one product at a time and other times it queues, downloads and installs. ..and I have fiber optic line running into my apartment. Go Figure! So.. it got to be the server.

  • XoechZXoechZ Posts: 1,102
    edited December 1969

    Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately I have the problem all the time! It seems that DIM does not like something with my internet connection. But I have no idea what it is.

  • TotteTotte Posts: 13,955
    edited December 1969

    It's most probably not your internetconnection. I have a 100MBit fiber and I get anything from 7MB/s down to 46kB/s. It really depends on the CloudFlare Server your DIM is accessing and the state of that server park. Some are targeted more by DDOS attacks than others (which usually is the case for slowdowns).

    It's sad that DDOS has become the new "Pay us or we smash your shop windows" thing used by the mob all over the globe.

  • XoechZXoechZ Posts: 1,102
    edited December 1969

    Ok, I understand. Thanks for that explanation.

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