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by **artimrj** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:22 pm

I am packaging up the assets for the Lafayette route and it is big. 735 meg. Is this too big to download? Should I break it up into smaller parts? How big/small?

by **Overshoe** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:39 pm

I suggest approx 200 meg pieces.

by **artimrj** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:13 pm

Uh, 32 views and 1 reply. Does that mean you do not care about downloading a 735 meg file?

That is just the assets. The rolling stock is another 500 meg.

by **buzz456** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:22 pm

Is this before you compress it or after?

by **artimrj** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:24 pm

buzz456 wrote:Is this before you compress it or after?

735 meg rar file with max compression. 1.4 gig uncompressed.

by **buzz456** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:38 pm

That's about the same size as most of the major routes.

by **JohnM1945** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:45 pm

As an insatiable downloader, I'd say: split it if there's a logical divide (eg between assets and content), otherwise keep it as a single download, as anything less than 1GB is acceptable to me as a recipient.

But... is there a significant effect on the downloading server if the downloaded segments are (a) few and large, or (b) many and small?

Kind regards,

John M

PS My normal download rate is 0.75 MBytes/sec...

J

by **jpetersjr** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:30 pm

It really doesn't matter how big the download is, just as long as it fits on RWA servers, if it acceeds the download library limit, then there's a problem.

But other then that, it doesn't really matter how big it is if it fits.

...Cheers...

Jon

by **TDHenderson** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:29 pm

No worries about download size to me.

by **artimrj** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:33 pm

The server is 1 TB, no problem with size. Upload limit is 942 MB or something like that. I upload with FTP so there is no size limit for me. The web thing has limits according to the way php is configured. The file library is now 28 gig.

by **imnew** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:55 pm

Download size does not worry me.

by **Chacal** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:12 pm

Doesn't matter.

by **gkbaldwin** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:28 pm

Size doesn't matter to me. Use to downloading up to 22GB or more on some games.......Gerry

by **Bananarama** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 11:34 pm

Large files aren't the issue, Bob. The biggest problem is with your server's bandwidth and associated charges.

by **Ericmopar** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:44 am

That isn't that big Bob. Like others say, I don't care how big the package is.

To put this in perspective, my Assets for Donner are 2.5GB plus another 683MB for the route folder.
That's over 3GB all together.

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