[MCL-16593] Launcher download speed incredibly slow

I just bought the game, and upon checking my download speed when it comes to download from any other source , is costantly 2 mb/s .

However in Minecraft Launcher , it's incredibely slow, something like 1mb per minute.. since i can't see the download speed there.

sorry for my bad english but i hope u can help me.

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Comments 17

migrated 2021-01-24T16:10:14Z

2mbps speed is around 250KBps speed that is extremely slow and it should take time to download at that speed

migrated 2021-03-20T06:09:05Z

I've been installing on my Mac for like 2 hours now, my download speed is typically 100mb/s but I simply cannot get through the 400mb download after an hour

migrated 2021-04-05T14:53:24Z

I got the same problem, I bought the game today, the first download after installation and starting the launcher is incredible slow on a 250 MBit/s connection...

migrated 2021-08-21T11:26:04Z

Can also replicate this downloading Java Minecraft for the first time on this Windows PC. 192MB/400.23MB installed. Speedtest.net result: https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/69e733cc-54bc-4a48-98c1-6f4d2167b5d3

migrated 2021-08-24T11:18:50Z

This issue has been around for years. I think it might be local to Australia. Can this PLEASE be fixed. So frustrating going as slow at 0.1mbps.

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migrated 2021-09-08T23:25:46Z

I am currently having this issue in the United States.

migrated 2021-10-23T18:16:41Z

Vote for this please, literally, i can have my classes, make my coffee, and minecraft just downloaded 2mb

migrated 2021-10-24T00:48:11Z

So I may have figured something out here?

I was downloading at about 1mb per minute, and messing around because I had extra time on my hands while it was downloading.
Logged into my microsoft account from inside the launcher and the download seemed to jump to about 1mb per second? (I have an 8mbps line, so 1mb per second is pretty much max speed)

migrated 2021-11-02T01:35:05Z

Hey all, so I recently clean installed my PC with a fresh copy of windows 10 on a new SSD and I was having the EXACT same issue. Although I had already installed some common software (chrome, steam, discord, etc.), my install was still pretty fresh as I had just installed windows. I knew it was very unlikely any third party software was causing the issue, so I pulled up task manager (with the download still running in the minecraft launcher) and started looking for the problem. After trying a few things to no avail I found a solution.

SOLUTION: This may not be the same for everyone else, but I had two internet adapters installed and enabled (one for ethernet and one for my wifi-6 network card). My ethernet was not connected at the time (I was using wifi) so I tried disabling the ethernet adapter. The MOMENT I disabled it, my minecraft launcher (which was still downloading in the background) immediate sped up to expected download speeds and my download was done in seconds.

Hope this helps.

migrated 2021-12-04T12:38:20Z

I was having the same problem, my download speeds were incredibly slow. I tried using wifi instead of ethernet like Joshua Wright said and the download was done in less than a minute. idk why using wifi instead of ethernet makes the download a lot faster but it does work.

migrated 2021-12-13T19:21:20Z

I'm facing similar issue! I have internet connection of 60Mbps and when I was connected to Ethernet, the download speed was around 2Mbps. But when I switched to WiFi the download speed increased to 40Mbps. I don't know how is it possible but it works.

I have desktop with "linux mint 20.2" OS and "windows 10" OS. Both had the same issue while downloading.

migrated 2021-12-17T11:14:35Z

I've found a workaround for win 11 / win10 with winget:

1) open powershell

2) type winget search minecraft

3) look for Minecraft Launcher

4) copy it's id

5) type winget install <id> (e.g. winget install Mojang.MinecraftLauncher)

migrated 2021-12-19T21:00:50Z

My experience: The download from MSStore was not progressing, so after 10 minutes I paused it, and it reported 0.10KB of 46.75 was complete.

Next I followed Rosario-Francesco's instruction, and winget installed MinecraftInstaller.msi (2.54MB) in about 30s.

migrated 2023-04-29T11:12:08Z

I had slow download experience today too. Let me describe detailed how that was looking:
I downloaded client, logged in and pressed that big green button to download and install the game changing nothing (latest release 1.19.4 was selected).

The next 15-20 minutes (not sure) it was downloading pretty slow, so I opened Task manager to inspect if I have any troubles on any point. But all seems to be calm - processor load on minimum values (from 0% to 20% with average 5%-8%), RAM around 1/3 with minor changes, SSD load was high sometimes but not even 1/4 of time, like something was waiting to write down files once per some period/event, also, I have good network and download speed wasn't very big average 5-10 Mb/s (enough to go up to 100 Mb/s on a WiFi and up to 500-600 Mb/s on a wired connection not only by specs but at practice as well).

Suprisingly after downloading around half of files ~300Mb/~650Mb I lost the exact point but all next things happened in 1-2 minutes and installation was succesfully finished.

I'm fine with such behavior and not worried too much. But maybe this information can help you to make your product better.

Thank you for your attention.

migrated 2023-05-04T12:48:12Z

Yeah we may need to come back to this again- like download speeds are extremely fast but when using both a legacy launcher and the newest one, its extremely slow, its like somethings blocking it, but it wouldnt be my network whatsoever ecause it runs at 20mb/s...
Ive brought up concerns about launcher issues before but they've always been shrugged off. the issue persists.

migrated 2023-06-21T10:55:22Z

I have the same issue for some reason minecraft launcher doesn't using my network correction or my drives properly. I have 75mbps dowload speed yet it uses around 1-2mbps when I try to install releases. It downloads some of the files around %15 to %20 percent and then download stops for a reason. I checked this on task manager to see if it writes the downloaded files on drive but it doesn't using my drives too. This also effects in game, when I try to join a server it takes long time and sometimes gives network errors and when I join I have a lot latency. I tried different things such as uptading minecraft, reinstalling, repairing, restarting pc and many more yet none worked.

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2023-07-07T12:27:15Z

Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Won't Fix.

The team looking into this have mentioned the issue is not possibly relating to or controlled by the Launcher.

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