Just curious where the server that L&L uses for updates is located, because I have 500 Mbps download connection but the latest update took 17 minutes to download….
I’m in Australia.
The actual update binary will be sent from AWS, not us directly. We use cloud storage to reduce web server overhead. That does mean at times you will be at the whims of regional AWS routing issues or bottlenecks.
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Hmm weird. Thanks for the quick response!
You can test your local internet speed using any number of testers. I use fast.com.
You also have available the “tracert” trace route program on your Windows machine, available from the command line (last I looked … don’t use Windows anymore) to test performance server by server between your machine and the target machine. Sometimes interesting to see just how many machines are involved. I don’t know the address Scrivener’s AWS server, but do try the command to say google.com or something to get some perspective.
It isn’t your immediate connection’s speed that is the problem but intervening ones. They may be slower than yours. I see this problem acessing site in Korea. I have a 1,2Gbps FFC and intra-Korean connections are fast too but between us there are many slow connection. It only needs a navvy to put a backhoe through a cable carrying six redundant circuit (happened once) and the link dies no matter how fast you connected.
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