I've been traveling and working remotely from hotels and noticed that a gateway that I have in both 8.1 and 8.3 that the designer has to download significantly more data in 8.3 compared to 8.1 causing it to take much longer to load.
For instance, I had an 8.1 gateway that I backed up and restored to a new 8.3 gateway. When loading the 8.1 designer on the main project, it only downloads like 13MB of data according to the splash/loading screen. The identical project when I open it on the 8.3 gateway downloads over 80MB of data. The gateway backups of either 8.1 or 8.3 is about the same size (only about 100k difference).
When working locally, I never noticed a difference due to network speeds, but working from some bandwidth limited locations "exposed" the significant amount of data being transferred in 8.3 vs 8.1. Is this expected, or has anyone else experienced this?
What modules do you have installed?
I think in 8.1 you'd only have to download JXBrowser if you had Perspective or the Web Browser, and in 8.3 it's just part of the Designer core.
Maybe.
Mostly default with some drivers left out (Omron, Mitsubishi, etc), and I left off the SFC, and SMS/Voice notifications. I did add the WebDev module, but I had almost all modules loaded in 8.1 plus a bunch of 3rd party modules I was testing. (I don't really need all the 3rd party modules, so left a lot of them off the 8.3 system to keep it cleaner).
Edit: Also to note, the gateway backups are roughly 22.5MB, and while I know that's zipped up, it just seems like not all of that would even be loaded when loading a project in designer.
Does it download 80mb every time or just the first time and then it's cached?
Every time unfortunately.
Edit: Added some screen recordings of 8.1 vs 8.3 loading the same project on each.
v8.1
v8.3
