[Solved] Abnormally slow download speed | /r/NintendoSwitch | Page 1

light river Jun 11, 2022, 1:21 PM

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I'm trying to download Grid Autosport, and initially the download time displayed was about 4 hours. I docked the console, and when I picked it up and checked the download, it became about 12 hours. Confused, I tried cancelling the download and restarting it, only to find out that now it displays over 60 hours. I have hoped on YT and tried possible solutions such as changing the primary and secondary DNS, but to no avail. Are there any solutions to this?

EDIT: I have made sure that no other device is connected to the same wifi connection. Now it says 39 hours, which is still absurdly long for a 6 gig-ish download.

EDIT 2: I docked my switch again for a few minutes. Came back, checked, and it said 81 hours lol. I give up. Really need someone's help here.

SOLVED: Turns out the damned thing just needed muuuuch more time than usual to somehow "apply" (if that's even the right word) the normal download speed when downloading.

Context: I have downloaded Monster Hunter Generations, FE: Three Hopes Demo, Asphalt 9, etc., and their download was fine.

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Abnormally slow download speed

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 1:55 PM

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The estimated time is just well off

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its still 4ish hours

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:00 PM

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I see. I'll try leaving the switch alone for a while. I'll post an update here.

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:00 PM

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It happened with me.

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:09 PM

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It says 80 hours 37 minutes now, and obviously the download % is still at 0%. Is the download still fine as you mentioned if this is the case?

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:11 PM

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have you just opened it, checked it, then closed it?

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closing it stops it checking.

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:11 PM

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I see. Let me try opening it and giving it a couple of minutes.

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it changes to 84 hours now.

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Looks like the timer is correct since the minute decreases properly

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:16 PM

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huh

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so it is a problem then

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:16 PM

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Yeah. I tried testing the connection using switch. 34 Mbps download speed

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which doesn't check out with the ETA i'm getting

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:17 PM

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34 megabits per second...

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:18 PM

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wait is that good or bad?

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I forgot the difference between Mb and MB, if I remember correctly that there's a difference between the two that is

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:19 PM

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b is bit

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B is byte

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:19 PM

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Context here is that I downloaded FE: Three Hopes demo yesterday, which I left running overnight, and that was 7 gigs

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and ofc there's no way a 6 gig download takes way longer than overnight

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:21 PM

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FE:TH took how long

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:21 PM

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tbh I didn't really check it. Just left the download running on docked mode, and then fell asleep

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that was around 10 pm. Woke up at 3 am and the download already finished.

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:22 PM

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so less than 15 hours... strange...

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:23 PM

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Yeah. Just checked the Grid Autosport download again just now. Changed to 26 hours

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this thing's really odd lol

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:25 PM

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its not bad. give it its time.

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it'll do it... eventually.

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:25 PM

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I hope so. I'll go set the sleep timer to never and let the device run for a few moments and see what comes up.

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Though I wonder if the problem may be on the nintendo server's end

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interesting; it's increasing again to 27hrs 22mins

modern inlet Jun 11, 2022, 2:38 PM

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oh yeah i forgot to tell, the switch is RUBBISH at estimating download time.

light river Jun 11, 2022, 2:40 PM

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oof yeah, I can tell now

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I just hope the download ETA and % are actually mistaken, and that the game is actually downloading normally

#[Solved] Abnormally slow download speed