Quote from Guido on May 24, 2020, 13:23

Many things can go wrong during a download of such big files, and many things can also influence speed. I recommend:

• to place your device very close to your wifi hotspot during the download of big maps
• If download seems to stall, cancel the downloads and start it again
• Try downloading on a tuesday or wednesday. Especially on certain weekends in a year (e.g. this weekend was 'ascension day' weekend), are very busy for the Scenic server, which can cause slower downloads.

Quote from josforumscenic on July 8, 2020, 01:53

I have the same problem the last few months.

I have a very fast (500 Mb) internet connection and map downloads used to take minutes, but now they take hours even when the iPhone/iPad is close to the router.

Every time before I try a map download I test my download speed, now it is 240 Mb/sec but still the download is very slow, every one hundredth of a percent is ticking slowly by; until this year it used to go so fast the number after the comma was just a blurr.

i have tried several times of day, but downloads stay very slow.

the size of the map doesn’t matter, small maps are just as slow as big ones.

Quote from Guido on July 8, 2020, 07:35

I don’t know what’s causing this for you to be honest. I just tried again and was able to download France in under 5 minutes. Perhaps the servers location (Dallas, Texas) has something to do with it.

Quote from josforumscenic on July 8, 2020, 11:31

Hi Guido,

i just noticed something strange about the map download speed.

when I download a map on my iPhone using the 4G mobile connection, the speed is normal, like you described.
When I download the same map on my iPhone using the WiFi (500Mb) connection, the speed is about fifteen times slower.

Have you any idea what the cause can be ?

Thanks,

Jos

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Quote from Guido on July 8, 2020, 11:51

Maybe a VPN or proxy running on your modem/router?

Quote from josforumscenic on July 8, 2020, 12:21

No, nothing.

i have the same router and provider a couple of years now and until this year downloads went very fast.

when I do WiFi speedtests, 3 different ones, I get 230-300 Mb/sec

The WiFi connection can’t be the cause of the slow Scenic map download, because I just downloaded a TomTom map on my iPhone through WiFi: the Netherlands 574 MB in 35 seconds .....

Quote from Guido on July 8, 2020, 15:02

Very weird. So, fast when you download a Scenic map on 4G. Fast when you download a TomTom map when on Wifi, but slow when you download a Scenic map on Wifi. And, fast when most other users download Scenic maps, including myself. (Not much other feedback received on this and I just downloaded France again, to see if there's something corrupt with the map, but no, within 3 minutes it was on my device.) It seems a bit random. I am not throttling any connections through the app code, nor the server code. Only thing I can recommend is to keep trying. Sorry. Server is not really busy now.

Quote from josforumscenic on July 9, 2020, 01:39

When I tried this morning the map downloads went fast again,so everything’s allright.

Thanks,

Jos

P.S. and also many thanks for all your work on this unique and excellent app !