Hello, I'm new around here, and am trying to review some games. It's taking forever to 'unpack' a 42MB game to my Xbox(over 40 minutes so far). I grabbed a 2.7MB game for review and it took close to 10 minutes to get it onto my box. Is this normal? If not, what can I do about it? Thanks, Aadam.

It's not been like that for me. Are you on a wireless network perhaps? There's really not much you can do about it. It's going to take as long as it's going to take.

Do the files go across the local network or the internet to get to the Xbox? If it's going across the LAN, I can't imagine why it would take nearly an hour to transfer such a small amount of data. Seems strange that the files would go through the net, since you need to have the box and PC on the same LAN to do this. I'm wired, and nothing else on my LAN is slow. The speed must be hindered by something if I'm the only one experiencing this particular issue. I can see it taking forever if the PC has to send the files across the net to the 360, since my PC only gets about 35KB/s upload to the net. If we didn't need the PC on the local network, I could upload from my web server much quicker.

Adam Schmelzle:

Do the files go across the local network or the internet to get to the Xbox?

The files go trhough the local network and actually my experience is that when both PC and XBOX are wired, the process is very quick. Also, when you are deploying your own game, only modified content is sent over the network on each build, so that makes the process still faster. You can even see how content is getting uploaded on the Game Studio Connect, and usually most of the files are sent in less than a second.

I bet this issue is related to your PC, you were probably running a VPN connection, a Peer to Peer software or something that was eating bandwidth a lot. I have experienced network problems when connected to my workplace trhough a VPN, I always have to disconnect the VPN before connecting to the XBOX 360 for XNA development, or just to use the Media Center extender functionality. This same problem applies to networked games when playing over a LAN, If some PC is connected to a VPN, it never finds the session.

Hmm... I don't actually have any sort of VPN or was using the LAN/internet for anything at all at the time. File transfers across my LAN all go at full network speed ~10MB/s. I'll have to try more stuff out today and see what happens.