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midorijin

Its not my provider. I provided links of users both in these forums as well as reddit who have exactly the same issue.

I also have 3 separate internet providers. One from the telco, one from the cable company, and one from 4G. They are independent companies from each other, each with independent infrastructure as well as independent out of country pipes.

It happens on all of them. The only commonality here is that Im in a remote location, so my connections vary from 10 to 35mbps and many times of day I cannot peak them at all. So 20 that i quoted is an average.

As you can imagine, streaming is even worse most times... thus, those of us with such connections have all the more need for downloads and its one of the reasons I chose SLR as some sites dont even support downloads at all.

FWIW - My background is web development and networking with about 40 years IT experience. I've been doing web dev since we had to compile NCSA Mosaic ourselves (first web browser) in the early to mid 90s and have been both building networks and programming network software from even the pre web days, and even pre gopher days when we had to do the code on mainframes because they were the only machines connected to the internet at the time.

I appreciate your help, but SLR clearly has an issue here in their code and it appears related to a change made in summer 2021.

    jsmith579111 its the same on all 3.

    Yes, because the issue is at your system level. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying there is something wrong with your system. It's about how it's handled by the system.

    I do often queue a lot of downloads from SLR yes. The screenshot with the simultanious downloads in the other thread was just per illustration that SLR does allow simultaneous file downloads (streams). You have to keep the amount of connections reasonable too. 15 seems to work just fine on SLR. Not 15 per file, but 15 combined over all files actively downloading from SLR. I'd also recommend to keep it at least at 3 connections per file.

    Maybe having 3 internet connections, if all connected at the same time, is somehow making things worse by the system trying to load-balance.

    There are VPN services that allow you to combine multiple internet connections into one.

        Rakly3
        The problem is SLRs code.

        1) I am not the only user who has this issue. Please see previous links I posted.
        2) I only use one connection at a time with SLR. I only download one at a time, because of a separate problem with SLR and slower connections, also detailed by several users in links above.
        3) Based on reddit threads, this seems to have appeared with a change made by SLR in mid summer 2021.
        4) I do not have this issue with other sites.

        SLR code is not working properly with slower connections. That is the issue. I would bet if you set up a connection speed limiter and tested it, you would see what I and others have been reporting.

        The second poster in this thread (who is not me) reported this in 2020.

            jsmith579111

            1. I know, the cause and solution is the same however for all of them.
            2. Same thing
            3. This is something that's been going on for as long I can remember. SLR also has been a streaming service since as long I can remember.
            4. Other sites are not streaming the files. As in, their servers are not set up as a streaming service. I know you can stream many of them too. Things just work way different between a file hosting and streaming service. A streaming service has to be able to break things down in smaller chunks and handle more simultaneous connections to more users at the same time.

            The way the files are encoded is even different if it's meant for streaming. Ever noticed how some videos don't play at all if it's only partially downloaded, and other DO play the parts that are downloaded?

            A streaming encoded file you can start playing anywhere in the timeline. Non streaming files will either require you to cache everything from the start to where you are skipping to, or need you to cache a pretty large part at once, if not the entire thing.

              "I know, the cause and solution is the same however for all of them."

              Did I miss something? The only solution seems to be to live in a country with fast internet connections.

              This isnt about streaming. Streaming is a different protocol and handled differently than downloads. Other sites download just fine without issue. And yes, many other sites do stream as well. SLR is far from the only streaming service.

              With slow internet connections SLR only reliably downloads a single file at a time - reproduced by several users. Also, download managers cannot queue files for download on such connections. Again, reported by many users.

              If I have missed a solution other than moving to a country with faster internet, or using a different service (Ive already paid for a year here), please let me know.

              The issue in case it's not clear seems to be with SLRs bandwidth management code. It has issues with slow connections and performs incorrectly.

              Even the big guys have had issues. Cloudflare several years ago had an issue which affected them for months with slower connections as well. It was so bad during that time that I and others had to resort to pulling files to hosted servers on fast lines, and then doing a secondary download from those servers during that time.

              Download managers dont help much, because as soon as more than one connection is established for download from a single IP, the problem begins. And combined with the lack of ability to queue, the download managers are of minimal use. I've tried nearly a dozen, all the same results.

              I can understand if I was the only user reporting this. But I'm not, and given the small and remote place I am in, it is highly unlikely that these other users live where I do.

                jsmith579111 Download managers dont help much, because as soon as more than one connection is established for download from a single IP, the problem begins. And combined with the lack of ability to queue, the download managers are of minimal use. I've tried nearly a dozen, all the same results.

                There's plenty of people here that will tell you, from their personal experience with SLR, that what you said is not correct. Every single person I've helped with incomplete downloads from SLR have had their issue resolved, many with increase in speed and possibility to queue when they started using a download manager that intercepts the return response from the server.
                I am aware not all managers are compatible, nothing is stopping them from making it compatible.

                EDIT, I had one person where it didn't help because of the remote area connection was so poor he had a lot of packet-loss.

                    Rakly3
                    How many of those users were on slow connections in remote areas? Were any of them 50mbps or slower? I'd bet that the users who have cited issues in the links I posted all have slow connections.

                    What about the other users in this thread and the other threads that I have posted? Are they resolved?

                    I will try one more, the one you named - IDM. But since once I open multiple connections, SLR fubars all the connections Im doubtful it will perform any different than the nearly dozen other ones I've already tried.

                    And again - repeating ad naseum - I do NOT have this issue with other sites. Only SLR.

                        I have 500Mb up/down fibre internet. SLR file downloads only seem to "average out" at about 60% of my bandwidth, but it does max it out albeit in spikes. If I download multiple files at the same time I can't really notice more bandwidth usage.

                        Streaming lag can be hit or miss at the highest resolutions, with no difference between viewing from my Chrome browser on my monitor or my Reverb G2 VR headset. My SLR speed test: 117ms | 280Mbps streaming | 341 parallel streaming, I'm located in the UK, I normally get 10ms to London, 15ms to west EU, 85ms to US East. I have a very powerful gaming PC with the weakest/oldest part being a nvidia 2080 Ti.

                        A few months ago I changed my internet service speed from 1Gb to 500Mb, after having 1Gb for 5 years. I'm glad I did as SLR download speed pretty much don't seem to want to go near 500Mb.

                          jsmith579111 Were any of them 50mbps or slower

                          Yes, many of our users don't have 50Mbps
                          You know fibre is only guaranteed up to your ISP node, right? Maybe try rerouting or a VPN. This has helped a good amount of people too.

                          Where are you connecting to BTW? From UK you could be connecting to Canada instead of Germany.

                              Sparkstar On a 20mbps or so I can max it out. But only with one connection. If more than one connection is established, 90% of the time all will abort after all slowing down to a crawl. Sometimes a single one will proceed at a decent rate, but usually all end up aborting even the fast one. Same as described by others in the links I posted.

                                Its clearly SLRs bandwidth management as I do not have this issue on any other site. No other website do I have these issues with.

                                But I think I see where our disconnect is. Its clear that SLRs bandwidth handler has some clear issues as demonstrated by several users.

                                Your answer seems to be "yeah, but here's a hack" rather than "yeah, we know about it". So far the hack has not worked because what I see is that when I open more than one connection, they ALL slow down to slower than a single connection. And again, only with SLR.

                                I regularly run torrents and fully load up to the max bandwidth without any issues with my connection nor system.

                                I am trying IDM specifically now.

                                Rakly3 Fiber isnt going to matter here. One of my connections is DSL, no fiber until it hits the ISP main switches. And at 20mbs? Who is running 20mbs on fiber?

                                One of my connections to the pole is fiber, but from pole to house is coax. I'm in the Caribbean on a small island. All 3 internet providers have adequate undersea fiber pipes that have quick connections to the US.

                                This problem only exists for me on SLR. No other site, none - Adult content or not.

                                  What I can confirm is that IDM works. So thank you very much for that, my issue is solved even though it's hack that shouldn't be needed.

                                  Saying "browsers dont do this well" while browsers work just fine on every other site including competitor sites just confirms this is an SLR issue.

                                  No other site do I need a specific download manager to perform normal functions that work "out of the box" with every other site I've used.

                                  "Every other site this, every other site that"
                                  I've explained everything and you keep saying/asking the same thing. I don't know what else to tell you.

                                  My pc keeps switching to 2.4G wifi and my download speed plummets to like one GB per hour
                                  When I searched "force 5ghz wifi" everyone says the same thing which didn't work for me:
                                  Device Manager > Network Device > (your wifi device) > Properties > Advanced > Preferred Band > 5G First.

                                  THIS DID WORK:
                                  Device Manager > Network Device > (your wifi device) > Properties > Advanced > Wireless Mode > 802.11a

                                  Mine was set to 802.11a/b/g. Once I switched it immediately disconnected and reconnected to 5G and my download speed went back to 10-15 MB/sec which is about the max I ever see. Maybe that can be helpful for someone using wifi.