We're attempting to address our ongoing connection speed issues in China by contracting with a China-specific content distribution network, whose servers are behind the Great Firewall and distributed throughout China and should offer fantastic transfer speeds almost everywhere in China. But we'd like to make sure that this system actually delivers good results for our users before forking over a bunch of money for it, so we're doing some user testing before we sign them.
We're going to roll this out on iOS too if it works, but since the connectivity problems seem to be more severe on Android we thought we'd try it on that first. (so don't bother registering your ID if you're an iOS user)
So if you're interested in trying out our new China download system, go to:
http://www.pleco.com/ancndltest.html
and enter the Registration ID from your copy of Pleco in the form. That ID appears at the top of the Pleco "Settings" screen; if you don't have an ID yet, open the handwriting recognizer module in the main screen and you'll be offered a free copy of that, which will give you an ID.
Then, kill and reopen Pleco (via Settings / Applications) and go back into Add-ons and your download requests will now be directed to the new system.
Please post feedback here after you've tried a download or two - if everything's configured correctly then you should be seeing transfer speeds as fast as someone in the US, even for very large files like our extended audio add-ons. (we'd welcome feedback from people who've already downloaded all of their add-ons too, but if you're in that category you'd have to delete them before you can re-download them)
Note that this does not apply to the initial Pleco startup file download yet - if we adopt this system officially it certainly will, though.
We're going to roll this out on iOS too if it works, but since the connectivity problems seem to be more severe on Android we thought we'd try it on that first. (so don't bother registering your ID if you're an iOS user)
So if you're interested in trying out our new China download system, go to:
http://www.pleco.com/ancndltest.html
and enter the Registration ID from your copy of Pleco in the form. That ID appears at the top of the Pleco "Settings" screen; if you don't have an ID yet, open the handwriting recognizer module in the main screen and you'll be offered a free copy of that, which will give you an ID.
Then, kill and reopen Pleco (via Settings / Applications) and go back into Add-ons and your download requests will now be directed to the new system.
Please post feedback here after you've tried a download or two - if everything's configured correctly then you should be seeing transfer speeds as fast as someone in the US, even for very large files like our extended audio add-ons. (we'd welcome feedback from people who've already downloaded all of their add-ons too, but if you're in that category you'd have to delete them before you can re-download them)
Note that this does not apply to the initial Pleco startup file download yet - if we adopt this system officially it certainly will, though.
