Your new build reached Dropbox or Google Drive in five minutes, yet the same zip takes much longer to upload to Eagle 3D Streaming. Usually nothing is wrong with your account or with the upload page: the two are not doing the same amount of work. This page explains the difference, shows how to measure your real connection to the Eagle 3D Streaming storage, and how to skip the upload from your computer altogether.
The Dropbox and Google Drive desktop apps cut every file into small blocks and remember the blocks they already have. When you save a new version of a build, most of it is the same as the last one - so the app sends only the blocks that changed, and the progress bar finishes long before a whole build could have crossed your connection. The file looks fully uploaded, but only a part of it travelled.
An upload to Eagle 3D Streaming sends every byte of the zip, every time. Each build is checked, unpacked and test-launched on its own, so nothing can be skipped. A 5 GB zip is 5 GB of upload.
Your build goes from your browser to the nearest Cloudflare entry point, and from there to the Eagle 3D Streaming storage in Western North America. Dropbox and general speed-test sites use different servers on different routes. Your internet provider can have a good route to one and a congested route to the other, at the same moment.
| Test | What it measures | Useful for a slow upload here? |
|---|---|---|
| A general speed test site | The line to some nearby server | No - it can show a fast line while the route to the storage is slow |
| Dropbox / Google Drive upload time | Often only the changed blocks of the file | No - it can look many times faster than the line really is |
| Utilities → Connection test in the Control Panel | Real 16 MB pieces sent to the Eagle 3D Streaming storage, the same way a build upload sends them | Yes - the speed and the failures your upload will get |
| What the test shows | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Fast at every step, no failures | The connection is fine | Keep 6 at a time |
| Failures only at 6 at a time | The connection cannot hold several uploads together | Choose 2 or 1 at a time |
| Slow or failing at every step | The route to the storage is congested or unstable right now | Try another network or later - or use Upload assistance below |
If your build is already on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box or your own server, the Eagle 3D Streaming servers can fetch it from there - nothing is uploaded from your computer, and a slow home line does not matter.
Before downloading, the size is compared with your free storage, so a build that cannot fit stops at once with "needs X GB, Y GB free". Builds up to 50 GB are accepted. Links to private or internal network addresses are refused.
Write to (Email / Discord) with a screenshot of the Connection test table and the time you ran it. The numbers show whether the slowdown is on the route to the storage or somewhere else.
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