At Last - Xbox 360 Download Manager Coming - End of May

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Xbox Dashboard Update Confirmed - Download Manager Coming

A huge Xbox 360 dashboard update will arrive at the end of May. Promising features such as 6 parallel downloads in the background are set to be included.


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We got confirmation from Boris Schneider-Johne (Senior Product Manager Xbox Platform and Accessories, Microsoft Germany) that a huge Dashboard Update will arrive at the end of may! It will feature a download manager for 6 parallel downloads in the background. He also mentions that there will be a lot more features in there but it will be a surprise and he won’t talk about it! The downloads will also running while a game is played.

The user marks a file to download and it will be put in an active queue
download list. There are 6 slots reserved in that queue. They will be
downloaded sequentially not in parallel! If the Xbox360 sees there is
bandwith available it will boost the download speed up, if there. During
Online Sessions the downloads will be paused to garantee no lags. It’s also possible to turn off the console, after powering it back on the downloads will resume. When a download finishes the user will get a message that it has been downloaded.

The bandwidth managment looks like to be for lag free chats in the dashboard or some other features which will be implemented additionally, i think so cause during online sessions it will be paused anyway as he mentions in his response to my questions.
 
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So I can download 6 things at once really slowly? The download speed is still a joke for me on NTL :(
 
Yes, I did read it.

I was just having a pop at NTL more than anything, thanks though ;)

Because almost 3 hours after powering my newly recieved 360 on I'm still waiting on the Test Drive demo to finish downloading, it should take minutes not hours.
 
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that's good news...with all the E3 stuff available at the moment I could have really done with something like this so I could download a stack of demos overnight!
 
PuncH said:
that's good news...with all the E3 stuff available at the moment I could have really done with something like this so I could download a stack of demos overnight!
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Aye I could do with it now, trying to catch up on what I've missed so far this week :p
 
wyrdo said:
Yes, I did read it.

I was just having a pop at NTL more than anything, thanks though ;)

Because almost 3 hours after powering my newly recieved 360 on I'm still waiting on the Test Drive demo to finish downloading, it should take minutes not hours.
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What's the deal with NTL then? Do they speed cap downloads on certain ports?
 
actually sounds quite good, so not only is it background downloading, it seems to be inteligent downloading too, so you can play games single player and jump onto live and back to single etc and it will adjust accordingly, nice work :D
 
About bloody time lol:p, looking forward to this update i think the most. At least i can play my games without having to wait 30 mins for a d/l to finish :p
 
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