Blockland Downloaded Fast

[phflack]

The new file download system required a slightly beefier hosting solution, so the CDN files and the main download are now hosted via amazon cloudfront.  It's an enormous distributed system with local mirrors all over the world, so when you download a file you're always getting it from a nearby server with huge bandwidth.  I've seen download speeds over 3 megabytes per second. 

:O
and that was probably after i DLed blockland..

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[.::Taboo::.]

So, what I don't understand is if this has an affect on the color of the loading bar for servers. I have seen it Light blue then the original blue color. Would this new hosting solution have something ti do with that?

way to pay attention to the updates.

[Medicat]

GUISE LEWK I DOWNLODID IT IN 6 love LOLOLOLOL

Really, was this necessary?

[Cloakedyoshi]

GUISE LEWK I DOWNLODID IT IN 6 love LOLOLOLOL

Really, was this necessary?

Idk, maybe?

[Kalphiter]

holy balls    :o

That's about 1/4th the capability of an ethernet wire, which is pretty good.

[Bisjac]

most servers never allow you to use bandwidth like that unless you are a paying member or something.
its sweetcakes

[WhoDa?]

I never understood the concept of a website cutting your download per second.
How are you able to control that??

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[phflack]

So, what I don't understand is if this has an affect on the color of the loading bar for servers. I have seen it Light blue then the original blue color. Would this new hosting solution have something ti do with that?

i figured out today that the the dark blue is the total % of the files you loaded, light blue is the % of the file you're loading :D

[Jubel]

The new file download system required a slightly beefier hosting solution, so the CDN files and the main download are now hosted via amazon cloudfront.  It's an enormous distributed system with local mirrors all over the world, so when you download a file you're always getting it from a nearby server with huge bandwidth.  I've seen download speeds over 3 megabytes per second. 

I find this very interesting, however this new hosting solution did jack bullstuff to me. 12 kb/s DL speed still loving woo-hoo

[Chrono]

So, what I don't understand is if this has an affect on the color of the loading bar for servers. I have seen it Light blue then the original blue color. Would this new hosting solution have something ti do with that?

The hosting service does not tell the client what color of loading bar to have. That would be pointless.

The downloading has two different colors. The light blue which is for each individual file, and a back normal blue color for datablocks.

[Bisjac]

I never understood the concept of a website cutting your download per second.
How are you able to control that??

bump

i dunno how its done, i never ran a site with the traffic and file transferring done.

but all sites have to limit you some. or else they will not be able to upload to you at all when 5% of the users are eating 100% of the bandwidth.

say you have a 12mbit connection /8bits = theoretically being able to download anything anywhere at 1.5 megabyte per second.

that is extremely fast. but notice how you basically are never allowed that when your downloading a file.
if all10k users are doing that speed, the site would just crash lol.

this is why higher speed nets are good for multiple computers, and for multiple file downloading.
it wont really (normally) let you download a single file faster from a single location.

[Kalphiter]

theoretically being able to download anything anywhere at 1.5 megabyte per second.

that is extremely fast.

You're actually completely wrong; pushing out stuff at 100Mbps is not that intense at all.

[Niblic]

I once downloaded every document in WikiLeaks and it loaded at 1.2 Terabytes per second.

Yet, it was still slow.

[Bisjac]

You're actually completely wrong; pushing out stuff at 100Mbps is not that intense at all.

12,500 megabytes per second, per user.... sure
 im saying every one of 10,000 users at a site couldn't do it. (the site couldn't, or wouldn't want to pay for unnecessary usage of extra bandwidth)

there is a world of difference between megabytes and megabits, and when they are used.

kalph this discussion is about what sites logically would allow, not what possible technology is out there....
jesus christ, keep up.

[Cloakedyoshi]

That's about 1/4th the capability of an ethernet wire, which is pretty good.

Really well. O_o