Gameflood problems

[oDDbAlL]

hi guys

i am a follower of FfH for some time now. Needless to say that this is one of the best mods ever. You can read this all over the forum and i sign every comment on that. Thx for creating this jewel, Kael

But the reason i write here is that gameflood is a real pain... sure most ppl here agree to this. I always had problems getting new versions, which most likely has to do with my rather slow internet connection. This time it was the way that i got the dl to start, without dlmanager, at about 75% of max. dlspeed. 3 hours it should take. By the time the dl was at 18min remaining i went for a shower. When i came back i saw this ugly message about server reset and failed download...
Thats just the last chapter in a row of painful dls (and failed dls) of FfH

And now i see the torrent link which is the solution for me (and for slower ics without downloadmanager in general, i think). So my suggestion is that the next new version is released parallel as a torrent. Doing this would save guys like me much time and nerves. Another positive effect is that it spreads faster instead of crushing servers the more ppl get it.
After all i get it now via torrent, sooner or later (supposably sooner than via gameflood )
Cant wait to play it.

greetings
oDDbAlL

 

[Gelvan]

hey thanks a looot for the torrent file, took me about 5 minutes or something, while filefront showed 2,5 hours.
nice day

 

[Kael]

Just an FYI, I really appreciate people uploading the mod and getting it out there. Personally I dont like torrents, but Im thankful that its available and everyone helped out.

On my side Ive tried uploading to 5 different websites. And with each the download either fails just as it gets done, or I can upload it fine but I cant post it publically. Very frustrating.

Im still going at it now, despite breaking 6 hours while I slept my computer has been in a process of constant uploads for the past 20 hours. Hopefully this last one that will be done in an hour is the last.

Sorry for the pain getting to it, Im hoping it will be over soon, and thanks again to the people that helped out.

 

[Kael]

Woohoo! It finally worked. The last of many problems was that I was running out of space on the server, so anytime the upload finished it would go back and refuse the transmision, starting the whole process over.

Regardless its up and working through the normal links, let me know if you have any problems.

 

[wuntoothrie]

I'll try uploading it to FileFront if no one else does.

Edit1: Ok, i'll try...just testing out the install then I'll try uploading mine.

Edit2: Ok..uploading at 360-433kbps...~2 hours =\
I'll go out for a coffee and check back in an hour.

Edit3: Good news is that my upload is still going with only 50mins left.

Edit4: Done

http://files.filefront.com/FallfromHeaven2032exe/1;10319698;/fileinfo.html

worked like a charm ... thank you

 

[AOLBITES]

well, whatever your personal feelings are on torrents, it would be nice to at least get a officially sanctioned torrent with a checksum so people wouldn't have to worry about fakes .. torrents are much much more reliable anyhow esp for the poor people on dialup.

 

[Grey Fox]

Plus they get faster the more that download it, not slower.

 

[Randolph]

Plus they get faster the more that download it, not slower.

Yeah, for the initial release bittorrent definitely seems like the way to go. It has the least reliance on any individual person or server, and the greatest ability to meet an unknown demand. Gameflood and the like is great for the long term availability of a file, but clearly there are too many rabid FFH2 fans for us to depend on any one site's relability, capacity, compatability, and availablity to all users (immediately!). A new release of FFH2 is really a viral event and we need to harness web 2.0 techology to deal with i!