Supporters are users who previously bought a Premium Membership that has since expired (or who have specifically bought the "Supporter" membership from the site for a price of £1.29). This third tier includes "Supporters", and users who do not use Adblockers. We've now created a third tier of users on Nexus Mods that directly impacts the download speed cap. Members who have an active Premium Membership. Members who have not bought Premium Membership. Thus, up until now, there have been two tiers of users on Nexus Mods when it comes to download speeds: If you're interested in finding out about all the perks of Premium Membership, or want to become a Premium Member, please head to our information page.
Premium Members who have financially supported Nexus Mods are able to download without a speed cap as they are directly supporting the upkeep of the sites. If we didn't cap our downloads we could not budget in the same way. As a result, it's far easier to budget our bandwidth bills based on our active user base because more users typically means more ad revenue which means the increased bandwidth costs will be offset by the increased advertising income. By limiting the speeds, we ensure that our expenses remain linked to the number of users who use our site and not the connection speeds of our user base. Thus, the faster users download from us, the more our bandwidth bills will cost. Essentially, that means we're charged based on the speeds we deliver, not the total amount of files that are downloaded. We use a global CDN to serve our files and our bandwidth is charged by the 95th percentile method. The download speed cap on Nexus Mods ensures we can budget for and keep our substantial bandwidth bills within an acceptable price range and makes sure we aren't shocked (or utterly destroyed!) by spiralling bandwidth costs.
Why does Nexus Mods place a speed cap on downloads? Starting this week, this download speed cap has been increased to 2MB a second if certain criteria are met.
Since 2007, Nexus Mods has had a download speed cap of 1MB a second on all downloads unless the user is a Premium Member.
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