I use my current webhost to do the transfers. The main problem right now, well, with TF2 anyway, is the download bar isn't very good, at least with .bz2 downloads. The actual download goes to the halfway point, which confuses a lot of clients. A lot of people think the download is just really slow, when it's actually a 30-40mb download for half the bar, and then the extraction process and load. I made a topic about this a very long time ago and had a few people say it'd be awesome, but unfortunately we never saw anything from Valve on the issue.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Michael Damato <[email protected]> wrote: > Just curious what other ops are using for hosting map FTPs for downloads, > currently I've been using hostmonster, but speeds have been very erratic. > Does anyone know of a host thats been really good with this type of > hosting, > or are there any mods/plugins/cvars that can be changed to boost the speed > with which clients are able to download/unpack map files. > > Ive found that generally a server running lots of custom maps has a > tolerance time of roughly 5 - 7 minutes for the average player before they > will disconnect and not bother downloading. Another thing that I think > would > help immensely would be to list the speed and percentage of the download > complete, the bars really aren't enough of an indicator, though this would > be something valve would have to patch in. > > Thanks, > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
