I am wondering if there was a reason why it is taking 5+ hours to download a 1Gb game on a 75Mbps Internet connection. I am hoping that because Oculus Quest has sold out and it is christmas day, the Oculus Servers are having a hard time with the large influx of new devices. Unfortunately i feel alienated with that hope because it seems as if i am the only one suffering with this problem. I am concerned to troubleshoot my internet as it would cancel my download wich is at 80% currently, but it works fine on my phone and laptop.

Yes, that is extremely slow. My guess would be the same as yours, thousands of people got a Quest for Christmas and are clogging the servers.It wouldn't hurt to perform a speed test on another device just to be sure your connection isn't the bottle neck, but my money would be on the Oculus servers being overloaded.Typically a 1 Gb game takes only minutes to download on a slow adsl connection.

Oculus Quest store extremely slow download speed! | Meta Community Forums

38 Replies

enigma01
Trustee
6 years ago
It only took me a few hours to download Asgard’s which is 100+Gb on 80Mbps internet.
- jj.623021
  Honored Guest
  2 years ago
  Mine is taking ages and ages as well been on a few hours now 🫣😩
Arukubarr
Honored Guest
6 years ago

enigma01 said:

It only took me a few hours to download Asgard’s which is 100+Gb on 80Mbps internet.

Was this today using the Oculus quest store? Was this longer than usual?
- stricknook101
  Honored Guest
  3 years ago
  only? you sound satisfied with sub dial up speeds.
Anonymous
6 years ago
I got the quest for my son and his is very slow as well... Is there a way to download not using wifi? I was hoping I could log into his computer and download the games on the PC and then have them appear in the quest, but I dont see a way to do this. Trying to do it in the quest is taking forever. He is trying to download Vador Immortal (all three episodes he got for free) and it is going so slow... Its the only game he has tried to download and it is taking hours... my wifi is fast but this is beyond terrible. I hope its on Oculus side and the servers are just slow due to it being Christmas. I have a Rift S and it has never been this long to download any game....
dingofoxvrfox
Expert Protege
6 years ago
I can answer this the oculus quest requires a 5ghz wireless connection upgrade your router
- CatapultC4
  Explorer
  3 years ago
  it was working before for me so thats not the issue, i also sideloaded some software to force 5ghz
dingofoxvrfox
Expert Protege
6 years ago
Also Comcast uses dual channel ssd which isn’t comparable with the quest so you have to log into your WiFi settings on xfinity app and separate the channels giving the 2.4 ghz 1 channel name and the 5 ghz channel another name and different Chanel’s as well
Crazy_Sane
Superstar
6 years ago
Yes, that is extremely slow. My guess would be the same as yours, thousands of people got a Quest for Christmas and are clogging the servers.

It wouldn't hurt to perform a speed test on another device just to be sure your connection isn't the bottle neck, but my money would be on the Oculus servers being overloaded.

Typically a 1 Gb game takes only minutes to download on a slow adsl connection.
- HBeardd
  Honored Guest
  3 years ago
  Can this be advised differently for other people who have this issue that are outside the time of Christmas and other exchange gift like holidays? Maybe 2 Solutions? Either by a new thread or to have this not be shown as an answer outside of Christmas time. VR is still new and growing and will explode over the next two years. This thread cannot be what people are first shown when they run into this issue as it is objectively not consistent in a manner of timing.
- CatapultC4
  Explorer
  3 years ago
  I have this issue also, it's been 2 and a half years. I tried manually updating the firmware, factory resetting, and a few other things, honestly at this point the headset itself is probably the issue.
- jj.623021
  Honored Guest
  2 years ago
  What’s the normal amount of time to download usually??
  - MetaStoreHelp
    Community Manager
    2 years ago
    Hey there jj.623021, download speeds are pretty important for getting your games in timely manner, and we would love to provide some information on this! Just in case Crazy_Sane is n longer active, especially since they made their post back in 2019.
    
    Download time is heavily dependent on your internet speeds and size of the download. Lower or congested speeds will likely result in longer download times. If you are experiencing a much longer than expected time to download an app, make sure you have run a speed test to ensure there is not a network speed issue. Likewise,, if you have a lot of devices using the internet such as other users streaming movies or shows, this can cause network congestion and slow down any internet speeds as well.
    
    Feel free to send us a message privately from our Profile Page and we would love to help you troubleshoot further.
Ionizer6
Explorer
4 years ago
Is this ever going to be fixed? I have spent DAYS downloading with speeds as slow as 25kb/s.

I literally have stopped buying games because I don't want to spend three days downloading a new one. It's absolutely ridiculous. I have 100MB internet, my Quest 2 can hit over 500MB/s locally when testing and hit 100MB over the internet. My Quest 1 has the same slow speeds. Been like this for months.

Any way to manually download the updates and install them with adb? I am guessing no.
JohnsonQuest
Honored Guest
4 years ago
Would love to see a fix for this situation. It has taken me basically two full days to download 8-9gbs. Can't really experience the games if im spending most of my time downloading them.
Guacamola7
Explorer
4 years ago
Hey there,

I was having the same issues for weeks and now stumbled upon a really good workaround (at least for me). Located in Vietnam I just used my VPN to get an IP from Hongkong and now am downloading 5-10 times faster than before.

Hope it works for you guys as well!
Bearcoog
Honored Guest
4 years ago
is this still an issue with no fix? I just got an Oculus 2 and the download speed is super slow ~100kb/s. I did a speed test in the browser and it’s getting 500mb/s.