Nexus mods faster download - apologise, but
Crappy Download speeds
On other side of the table, consider how much money it costs Nexus to maintain server racks, redundant disk storage, network bandwidth, and electricity (and employee costs) to give us easy access to all these free mods. Quite frankly, I think $64 for a lifetime premium membership is dirt cheap. I keep all the mods I've downloaded/installed safely tucked away on a so I don't have to keep eating Nexus' bandwidth when I setup a new playthrough because I know it's easy to think downloading is free, but CDN and bandwidth fees aren't exactly free for Nexus.
I think the only servers I've used are the premium servers and the CDN, so I'm not sure if the standard servers are generally slower or the non-premium accounts are throttled (or perhaps both). Before Nexus moved to the CDN I just picked whichever server was at the top of the list and these are normally the premium servers. After Nexus moved to the CDN, I didn't bother to change my preferences so it always picked CDN and I think in the case of the CDN the non-premium accounts may be throttled.
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