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stumpy
21-01-2001, 22:24
I recently moved from ISDN to cable expecting a better performance, but apart from the ping (about 45-65 on Kingpin)the downloading of maps and skins are SO slow!
I recently reformatted, so I needed to obtain all the maps and skins again.
When the map starts to load the first 10k fly and then it crawls at about 1k a second until it reaches 100k, then it speeds up.(Remember this is all servers everywhere, not just the same one).
When I download skins it takes ages because they are so small in k's.
I know I can turn off skins,etc, but something is not right.
Everything in the game is set up properly.
Normal files from websites mostly download okay,with a few slow ones but not many.
Hope someone can help.

Pimper
22-01-2001, 10:30
The bandwidth on game servers is usually capped at 2k a sec perclient theis is to stop people like you with fast connections connecting and dling a map at 100k/sec and lagging the server. The best idead is to dl the maps and skins seperately then install them.
Hope this clears up ya worries for ya

Cheers
Pimper

rider
22-01-2001, 17:54
then how come I get a download from WP that hits about 400,000 bytes/sec? and more even.

It goes from 32,000 bytes/sec and then just expands exponentially until it finishes the download - I understand the capping, but I only got that with a modem which was infuriatingly around 1000 bytes/sec everytime

I must have one son of a bitch adsl connection

****

rider
22-01-2001, 17:59
I get the distinct impressions it's all a ruse

maybe WP have gotten bytes mixed with a googleplex algorithm just to trick me

:)