Downloading Issue

Question

We have few Windows store apps which has the functionality of downloading videos from server.
But we are facing a problem when downloading a video, which takes more time when compared to Desktop applications or IOS and Android app.
    Here is an example, we had a video of 66.3 MB. The complete download time took 14min with 50mbps internet bandwidth, whereas in IOS it completed within 8 min.
    We are making use of BackgroundDownloader to download the Video. 

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Chethan Raj

Answer 1

Have you tried using the RequestUnconstraiedDownloadsAsync method to download seamlessly? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn279025.aspx

You can also probably try to set the CostPolicy to "2" and see if it helps: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.networking.backgroundtransfer.backgrounddownloader.costpolicy.aspx

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Answer 2

Ya, i have tried by setting the CostPolicy. But still the result is same.

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Chethan Raj

Answer 3

Have you tried using the RequestUnconstraiedDownloadsAsync method to download seamlessly? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn279025.aspx

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Answer 4

Ya, i have tried with RequestUnconstrainedDownloadAsync method, But still the download speed is same.

Is there any other alternative for doing the same.

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Chethan Raj