Jason Dunn
01-25-2005, 11:13 PM
About a month ago I was pondering whether or not to stick with Nero Burning ROM (http://www.nero.com/us/Nero_6_Ultra_Editon_Major_Update.html) for my CD/DVD burning, or to switch over to Roxio's Easy Media Creator 7 (http://www.roxio.com/en/products/ecdc/index.jhtml). I'd be using Nero for several years, and liked it quite a bit, but I often found the sheer number of bundled programs to be a bit much. When Roxio wouldn't return my requests for a review copy of Easy Media Creator, and when I found out I could get a free upgrade to the new Nero Ultra Edition 6.6 I decided to stick with Nero. The latest version has some impressive abilities, but there's one thing that I find frustrating: updates.
Regular updates to fix bugs and enhance features make me feel good as a customer, but Nero takes this to an extreme - either by having overly-ambitious programmers or sloppy ones (maybe both). One look at the rat's nest that is their update history log (http://www.nero.com/us/Nero_6_Ultra_Edition_Update_Release_Notes.html) tells me that they prefer a cycle of rapid updates rather than infrequent, major ones. Normally I wouldn't mind, but here's the problem: the updates from Nero aren't small. On average they are between 20 MB and 30 MB in size. The painful part? Nero has extremely slow patch distribution servers. I just finished downloading a new 28 MB patch and went at a plodding 12 KB/s. :roll: That's almost 40 minutes just for a patch! And, I kid you not, I've had to do this on several computers several times this week - it's only with this latest round of patching that I've figured I should keep the latest patch on hand. :wink:
So Nero? Get some faster servers and get the patching monster under control.
Regular updates to fix bugs and enhance features make me feel good as a customer, but Nero takes this to an extreme - either by having overly-ambitious programmers or sloppy ones (maybe both). One look at the rat's nest that is their update history log (http://www.nero.com/us/Nero_6_Ultra_Edition_Update_Release_Notes.html) tells me that they prefer a cycle of rapid updates rather than infrequent, major ones. Normally I wouldn't mind, but here's the problem: the updates from Nero aren't small. On average they are between 20 MB and 30 MB in size. The painful part? Nero has extremely slow patch distribution servers. I just finished downloading a new 28 MB patch and went at a plodding 12 KB/s. :roll: That's almost 40 minutes just for a patch! And, I kid you not, I've had to do this on several computers several times this week - it's only with this latest round of patching that I've figured I should keep the latest patch on hand. :wink:
So Nero? Get some faster servers and get the patching monster under control.