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RTB Development
Melting Plastic:
Content downloading should be awesome!
Ephialtes:
Yeah, there are so many benefits of using it over the standard Torque file downloading.
- Faster download speeds because you're getting the add-ons from our high-speed server.
- Ability to download maps, custom bricks and kill/item icons without decal datablock hacks.
- Users will download updated content if the server has a newer version of an add-on which the user has outdated content for.
- Overall progress indicator and download time estimates.
- Easily remove all your downloaded content at the click of a button from the Mod Manager.
My only concerns are:
- Servers that have crazy numbers of add-ons.
- The speed at which the RTB Webserver can serve static files. It may be that I need to get another server and configure/optimise it more appropriately for static file serving to give users a better latency.
Makingblah:
--- Quote from: Ephialtes on April 09, 2010, 09:06:23 AM ---Yeah, there are so many benefits of using it over the standard Torque file downloading.
- Faster download speeds because you're getting the add-ons from our high-speed server.
- Ability to download maps, custom bricks and kill/item icons without decal datablock hacks.
- Users will download updated content if the server has a newer version of an add-on which the user has outdated content for.
- Overall progress indicator and download time estimates.
- Easily remove all your downloaded content at the click of a button from the Mod Manager.
My only concerns are the servers that have crazy numbers of add-ons, and the speed at which the RTB Webserver can serve static files. It may be that I need to get another server and configure/optimise it more appropriately for static file serving to give users a better latency.
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Possibly make a maximum number of content downloading at once, if I understand you correctly.
Ephialtes:
I didn't mean the two problems were related. I just meant if a server has 200 add-ons you may be sitting there for a while, although it would still take phenomenally less time to download via RTB. I'll have to do some tests to see how fast it can go, and I should be able to avoid TCP connection lag using the keep-alive directive which should also increase download speeds significantly.
Editing for clarification ...
Melting Plastic:
Would this service also download Prints and Player Decals?