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Posted by jeffjohnvol on Sat Jan 21st at 6:29pm 2006

Searched for this topic and didn't find anything. Also, wasn't sure if this is technically an "editting" question, so I posted here.

I have an upload speed on my dsl of about 40 KB/sec. Thats okay to serve up to 6 players, although 4 is more realistic.

I'm concerned about uploading a new map to people joining. Although I have a slow upload here, I have an FTP server that I can host my map files. Is it possible to redirect the download of the map (if new of course) to my alternate FTP server?




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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 21st at 6:44pm 2006

I have asked this question enumerable times to help prevent high pings on the server and the general consensus I have ascertained is "No"

You can either have it on, or off, but you cannot redirect.

Thats my take anyway.

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Posted by Naklajat on Sat Jan 21st at 7:36pm 2006

sv_downloadurl is the command. It only works with http servers though (I think).

My server has it set like this:
sv_downloadurl "http://maps.tgmclan.com/"

And on the http server the directory structure is like it would be in the cstrike directory, i.e. it has the maps, materials and models folders.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 21st at 7:43pm 2006

Cool, see there may be light at the end of the tunnel after all. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Gwil on Sat Jan 21st at 7:47pm 2006

You still need a fast alternative server to source the maps on though.




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Posted by ReNo on Sat Jan 21st at 8:19pm 2006

Surely we'd still be better hosting things here on the pit than on the server though? Server download speeds are horrible <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">




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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jan 21st at 8:26pm 2006

? quoting ReNo
Surely we'd still be better hosting things here on the pit than on the server though? Server download speeds are horrible

Thats because they are not zipped. You get them in all their glory.

When I was still able to play, I requested the download be diverted. It came to naught.

I still recommend it be done for the sake of pings. There are a lot of members in the States who'd thank you for the consideration.





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Posted by ReNo on Sat Jan 21st at 8:33pm 2006

It's not just because they are unzipped (they would be from an alternate download location anyway) - the server throttles the downloads because it needs to keep the majority of its bandwidth for the actual game.




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Posted by jeffjohnvol on Sat Jan 21st at 10:36pm 2006

? quoting Baron von Snickers
sv_downloadurl is the command. It only works with http servers though (I think).

My server has it set like this:
sv_downloadurl "http://maps.tgmclan.com/"

And on the http server the directory structure is like it would be in the cstrike directory, i.e. it has the maps, materials and models folders.

Cool. It is an http server that I ftp to, so that may just work!

Thanks.




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Posted by fishy on Sun Jan 22nd at 12:19am 2006

i'm sure that the files hosted on the ftp server can be compressed .bz2 files, to save on bandwidth/time. i remember reading it in one of the past update news pages.


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Posted by Naklajat on Mon Jan 23rd at 2:44am 2006

Yes, you can compress the files in bz2 format, and all this makes a huge difference in the amount of people that wait around for custom maps, especially if you put "fast map downloads" or something along those lines in the name of the server.



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