Why does nexus mods take so long to download

To get the information required, please follow the troubleshooting steps below, there is a posting template at the bottom of the article:. We do our best to provide access to all mods for users all over the world, however we are sometimes hampered by conditions beyond our control. A download link between two computers is deceptively simple, but it can involve the data you requested being sent halfway around the world before it arrives on your computer, passing through hundreds of different servers and cables.

If there is a problem with any piece of equipment along the route it may be beyond our ability to fix. Our developers work hard to ensure that your downloads are being routed to the server with the best connection but there are times where these limitations that are outside of our control mean that we cannot provide you a fast download speed.

In these cases, we may ask you to consult with your Internet Service Provider ISP to see if they can improve the way they route your traffic to our servers. If you are getting a consistently limited speed which is lower than the maximum for your membership tier, this is not being enforced by us and is either a connection problem or a limit from your ISP.

You can read more about our download caps and membership tiers here. Before we get into the more advanced troubleshooting, it's important to cover the simple problems we often encounter which can be fixed with relative ease. Steps to reproduce: Download a mod through Mod Manager Download, happening with every mod.

I decided to just get premium to have no download cap. I have restarted vortex, restarted my pc and nothing seemed to have worked. Download speed is not limited by Vortex - at all. Even the non-premium cap isn't. That's all under control of the server.

Vortex Version: 0. Best regards, Weston. My internet is fine and I know my firewall isn't interfering with it in any way. Now I can't even do that. Inspect:: mod failed to downlaod due to a time out sorry cant remember the exact wording and i couldnt copy and past from the Inspect pop up info. I'm getting an odd issue where I have paid for premium download speeds, and get those when I am manually downloading from the nexus server. Needless to say, the process for using mods will differ from game to game.

Once you have the program installed and up and running, you can start to download mods for your respective games. Make sure to have your games installed first before doing so. Large mods require a login. Small ones do not. Registration is free, downloads are free. Premium membership adds extra features to site usage. Last edited by iddqd ; 21 Nov, pm. Oh right I can creat an account and just not select any of the packages..

Just installed some of these mods. Crix View Profile View Posts. Aschura View Profile View Posts. Then use some of your experiance to fill in the gaps. Traditionally IP's supply bandwith and not overall data transfer values.

If bandwith is at capacity then the IP throttles total volume. The site then reduces the capacity of total data transfers or reduces the available amount of transfers occuring.

Asking for excessive experiance based information within a gaming forum is like requesting an explaination of aspartame production at the chewing gum factory in a HPLC discussion group. Sure they are related. Last edited by Improper Use ; 15 Sep, am. Noppius View Profile View Posts. Nexus has this trouble almost every time there is a sale for Skyrim. A bunch of new people buy the game or they get the DLC that they are missing and run to Nexus for the Unofficial patches, ENB settings and a ton of other mods.

The influx of people is just to big for the Nexus servers to handle. Also, Nexus has had troubles in the past with hackers that tried to shut the servers down by overloading it there is a technical term for this but i keep forgetting it.