License activation versus ping times

License activation seems to time out after 1 second, then try a second time, then ... just hangs.

This means users with satellite internet are pretty much screwed. The speed of light means we get 600ms ping times if everything is perfect. Right now there's a snow day where I am, so people are home watching netflix and my ping times are up around 1.5s to 2s, with high packet loss. That means that I can't activate my license.

What would work for this case is if the license kept trying, and used exponential backoff on the timeout. I'm used to waiting, that's not a problem.

 

A sample of ping times:

$ ping core.cloud.unity3d.com
PING core.cloud.unity3d.com (52.45.170.95): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=0 ttl=36 time=1005.669 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=1 ttl=36 time=1738.700 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=2 ttl=36 time=1060.588 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=3 ttl=36 time=791.472 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=4 ttl=36 time=1376.589 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=5 ttl=36 time=2974.360 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=6 ttl=36 time=2270.382 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=7 ttl=36 time=2094.953 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=8 ttl=36 time=1812.907 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=9 ttl=36 time=1529.282 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=10 ttl=36 time=1244.867 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=11 ttl=36 time=838.312 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=12 ttl=36 time=775.482 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=13 ttl=36 time=2215.334 ms
64 bytes from 52.45.170.95: icmp_seq=14 ttl=36 time=2556.072 ms
--- core.cloud.unity3d.com ping statistics ---
18 packets transmitted, 15 packets received, 16.7% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 775.482/1618.998/2974.360/667.036 ms
​

 

(After more than 10 tries, it got through finally)

 

Does manual activation still work?

https://forum.unity.com/threads/manual-activation-unity-5.340660/