360 downloads, cancell and get 50%

turtle3 · 8 May 2006 at 21:27

Has anyone noticed that if you start to download a demo from live then cancel it and click download again it will shoot up to over 50% complete

ive done this on the last 4 demos ive downloaded,, Ive just done it on test drive and im on 54%, not bad for about 3 mins

Wrathamon · 8 May 2006 at 21:33

It's just not calculating the % bar correctly. I mean. I've seen that bug before, and often when i start a big download it starts at 5%!

Just let it download, and don't worry about the % bar. It's complete when it says complete! Stopping after a few minutes and restarting doesnt mean you have downloaded 200 odd meg in a split second despite what the bar says!

wedgie · 8 May 2006 at 21:41

Exactly, the status bar on live is almost completely irrelevant. A D/L speed would be nice though

Mud · 8 May 2006 at 22:37

Yeah, its often borked...I think the 5% is allocating space for the download though.

Caustic · 9 May 2006 at 15:15

Yeah, there is apparently an update to Live in the process which will tidy up the downloads and allow background downloading etc. Most needed.

punky_munky · 9 May 2006 at 15:28

I remember years ago my friend insisted that he could download at 15KB/s on his 56k modem, he wouldn't believe that it wasn't calculating it correctly.

cokecan · 9 May 2006 at 19:08

lol i had somethin similar a few years ago when i was on good old ntl's free 2 hour dial up 56k jobby.

was downloadin a trailer for a film, it was quite a big file, and it reckoned it was downloading at like 100k a sec, it even stopped downloadin when it reached 100% thinking it was done. needless to say that trailer never worked

lol, thats 1meg speeds!!!