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#1

guess i panicked too soon. the libre download arrived after 15 minutes or so.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
The 15min delay is unusual! Maybe your router needs rebooting to
declutter it? It could easily have been something else but hopefully
rebooting the router is fairly easy. Errr, they don't always have an
on/off button so sometimes you have to pull the power-cable out and
doing that feels horribly wrong! So if you don't fancy it then don't
do it! :wink:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

That depends what he meant by "arrived", and on his connection speed. I get about 2-3Mbps, and downloading the LibreOffice installer did take around 15 minutes yesterday. Which is to be expected of a ~200MB download at that sort of speed.

Some browsers give very little indication while a download is in progress, and then pop up a message when it completes, so it may well seem not to be doing much for that time, and then suddenly "arrive".

Mark.

Tom Davies wrote:

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Good point. I usually get on with other things while the download is
going on so it might take me even more time but i notice it less.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

What was the delay?
Download time?
Response time to start the download?

There has been some unexpected "downtime" for the LibreOffice sites, so that might have been an issues there.

Tom has some good advice. You should reboot your home/office network, every few months. When I worked in a computer center of a large business, Once a week we had to reboot the servers and once a month the routers and other network hardware.

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
I think the delay was purely download time. Downloads are not
completed instantaneously.

My initial answer had assumed the long delay was prior to the download
even starting. HOwever it is a bit of a coincidence that the time
taken between starting the download and completing it is often around
the same length of time.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: