This is feedback in part, and a complaint in part! 
So, I wanted to update to latest monster modpack 1.1.1. I did the usual point and click to accept the latest modpack release, sometime at 1:00 PM in the afternoon. At 6 PM, the launcher started the MC client(!!?). Basically that amounts to taking 5 hours for a 168 MB download! What?!? Then I closed the client/launcher and restarted the monster pack again.
When I clicked on the monster pack, I was told my version is 1.1.0, and if I wanted to update to 1.1.1. So what exactly happened in the last 5 hours?! Several unprintable oaths later, I decided to download the server pack with the help of download managers and manually update to the latest version (I knows some hax0rz!).
to achieve this, I supplied the miami1 repo to Downthemall manager at ~6:30PM first, and went out on an errand. Returned at 7:45PM to find that the download had timed out after 10%! (Oaths later) I resumed the download and for safety measures, I supplied the atlanta1 repo URL (from my memory!) as an extra mirror.
I checked back the download status at ~9:20PM, only to find out that the download was stalled again because both repos had the same "timed out" errors! blaaargwaaargfflflfl
Next up, I supplied the losangeles1 repo (again, from memory!), and the download is now limping along at 85% using the losangeles1 repo at the moment.
My server proximities are closer to Europe, but somehow only the US mirrors are coming up everytime I specify a download. I have explicitly mentioned Maidenhead/Nottingham as my preference in my server location options, yet it is one of the above three US repos that gets provided to me. On top of it, the speeds are slow, the connections are erratic and as I explained it is taking nearly 3 to 5 hours to download ~170MB! To add insult to injury, in the first case, after 5 hours, the launcher told me we were back at square one!
Not feeling happy, team. Please do something.
So, I wanted to update to latest monster modpack 1.1.1. I did the usual point and click to accept the latest modpack release, sometime at 1:00 PM in the afternoon. At 6 PM, the launcher started the MC client(!!?). Basically that amounts to taking 5 hours for a 168 MB download! What?!? Then I closed the client/launcher and restarted the monster pack again.
When I clicked on the monster pack, I was told my version is 1.1.0, and if I wanted to update to 1.1.1. So what exactly happened in the last 5 hours?! Several unprintable oaths later, I decided to download the server pack with the help of download managers and manually update to the latest version (I knows some hax0rz!).
to achieve this, I supplied the miami1 repo to Downthemall manager at ~6:30PM first, and went out on an errand. Returned at 7:45PM to find that the download had timed out after 10%! (Oaths later) I resumed the download and for safety measures, I supplied the atlanta1 repo URL (from my memory!) as an extra mirror.
I checked back the download status at ~9:20PM, only to find out that the download was stalled again because both repos had the same "timed out" errors! blaaargwaaargfflflfl
Next up, I supplied the losangeles1 repo (again, from memory!), and the download is now limping along at 85% using the losangeles1 repo at the moment.
My server proximities are closer to Europe, but somehow only the US mirrors are coming up everytime I specify a download. I have explicitly mentioned Maidenhead/Nottingham as my preference in my server location options, yet it is one of the above three US repos that gets provided to me. On top of it, the speeds are slow, the connections are erratic and as I explained it is taking nearly 3 to 5 hours to download ~170MB! To add insult to injury, in the first case, after 5 hours, the launcher told me we were back at square one!
Not feeling happy, team. Please do something.