Download speed

[Scott Swinyard]

The download speed anytime I try to join a server and it needs to download the map never exceeds about 10 or eleven kilobytes a second which means that it takes about twenty minutes just to get the first file. I don't know if there are any other files after that because I've never waited that long. I've tried many servers. Is this normal behavior or is there something wrong. Is there a way to speed it up?

[David]

Get an up-to-date client and it'll download fast.

[Scott Swinyard]

What is an MG repo?

[Tremulant]

What is an MG repo?

That's his signature, it's appended to every post he makes, it's not relevant to his reply.

the client he's referring to is available from http://releases.mercenariesguild.net/client/ but if you download GPP, which is the more up to date beta version of trem, you'll get an http download capable client by default.

[Mad_Joe]

Also, if given an option to download from server or website, pick website. It uses http, and is significantly faster.

[rotacak]

the client he's referring to is available from http://releases.mercenariesguild.net/client/

It is cappable to run server like default client?

[Tremulant]

http://releases.mercenariesguild.net/ has a tremded as well.

[rotacak]

But I talking about server without tremded, like default client (you just click on "create server").

[/dev/humancontroller]

soon the updated UDP upload/download code will be merged from ioQuake3, which easily yields transfer speeds of above 500KiB/s. then, setting up an HTTP server will be only a waste of time and reliability.

[David]

Unless the game server is on a link that can't handle multiple clients downloading at high speed.
You can argue that people shouldn't be running servers on such connections, but many do.