HLDS updater has this feature too: Steam.cfg PreferredContentServerIDs = "id1 id2 id3" where idX should be the valve content server ID as seen on http://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/
In my experience, clients almost always download much faster than the HLDS download tool, it even looks like they download multiple files in parallel. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Ian R. Justman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/01/2011 10:57, Claudio Beretta wrote: > >> the funny thing is that clients ALWAYS download stuff faster than servers >> > > Probably because the clients have their own download servers, and you can > tell your client where to pick up upates, which for me is either San Jose, > CA (when I'm at my current place of residence, Fresno, CA) or Sacramento, CA > (when I'm at my hometown of North Highlands, which is near Sacramento). I > don't know whether the HLDS updater has a similar ability to be so > configured. > > --Ian. > > -- > Ian R. Justman > UNIX hacker. Anime fan. Any questions? > ianj (at) ian-justman.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
