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Arukubarr
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December 25, 2019
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Oculus Quest store extremely slow download speed!

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.
    CrazySaneAnswer
    Inspiring
    December 26, 2019
    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.

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    enigma01
    Inspiring
    December 25, 2019
    It only took me a few hours to download Asgard’s which is 100+Gb on 80Mbps internet. 
    jj623021
    New Participant
    December 25, 2023

    Mine is taking ages and ages as well been on a few hours now 🫣😩

    ArukubarrAuthor
    New Participant
    December 25, 2019

    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
    New Participant
    October 25, 2022

    only? you sound satisfied with sub dial up speeds.

    Anonymous
    December 26, 2019
    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
      Up and Coming
      December 26, 2019
      I can answer this the oculus quest requires a 5ghz wireless connection upgrade your router 
      CatapultC4
      Participant
      June 23, 2022

       it was working before for me so thats not the issue, i also sideloaded some software to force 5ghz

       

       

       

      dingofoxvrfox
      Up and Coming
      December 26, 2019
      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
        CrazySaneAnswer
        Inspiring
        December 26, 2019
        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
          New Participant
          April 16, 2022

          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.

            Ionizer6
            New Participant
            April 29, 2021

            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
              New Participant
              May 17, 2021

              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
                Participant
                July 22, 2021

                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
                  New Participant
                  December 19, 2021

                  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.

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