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Free Tribes Release Ruining My Bandwidth
« on: May 8, 2004 11:16 am CDT »
I've had a sharp increase in the traffic for Tribes RPG 5.005, and I can't really come up with any reason except that Tribes has been released for free and people are wanting mods for it.  Anyway, I've already moved >6500MB this month, so I might have to cut the download off if this rate keeps up.

The increase started on 5/4/04, the day FilePlanet released Tribes 1.

May 1, 2004:  543MB
May 2, 2004:  443MB
May 3, 2004:  214MB
May 4, 2004:  861MB
May 5, 2004:  972MB
May 6, 2004:  1.14GB
May 7, 2004:  1.36GB
May 8, 2004:  814MB (already at 11:15 AM)
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« Reply #1 on: May 8, 2004 12:52 pm CDT »
I can see your point there, but just about everyone who really wanted to play Tribes has probably found one way or another to get it by now.
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« Reply #2 on: May 8, 2004 01:23 pm CDT »
Maybe that has something to do with the recent lag o_O
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« Reply #3 on: May 8, 2004 01:37 pm CDT »
My website and server are hosted by entirely seperate entities.
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« Reply #4 on: May 9, 2004 06:50 am CDT »
Ended up transfering 2.42GB yesterday.  That's amazing and about 5x my normal.
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« Reply #5 on: May 9, 2004 09:51 am CDT »
Must be something to do with the free release of Tribes 1
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Re: Free Tribes Release Ruining My Bandwidth
« Reply #6 on: May 9, 2004 10:03 am CDT »
Quote from: "Particle"
I can't really come up with any reason except that Tribes has been released for free and people are wanting mods for it.
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Must be something to do with the free release of Tribes 1


damn you are stupid.
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« Reply #7 on: May 9, 2004 05:14 pm CDT »
Or i just don't read some posts!
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« Reply #8 on: May 9, 2004 05:28 pm CDT »
It's the name of the damned topic, Sherlock.
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« Reply #9 on: May 9, 2004 10:22 pm CDT »
I went to yahoo.com and I searched for: Tribes RPG : and I scrolled down to Number 16 and I saw this page http://http://www.pcrpg.org/main.php?action=viewpage&page=files (that is the URL for the downloads section of this website>) so i believe that could be 1 reason the downloading from this site is so high.
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« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2004 12:24 am CDT »
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It's the name of the damned topic, Sherlock.


!!! LOL !!!

Dude.. that is the only time I have laughed because of one of Silv's posts... and it was so damn hillarious.  I allmost never laugh at some one else's expense... but I could not contain myself.

Thanks for that Silv. :-p :-)



Back to the topic:

Indeed!  I was thinking of hosting some files on my site when it's supposed to go up (when I get approoved for a credit card... yawn) but recent utilities that scour the "net" for games downloads and mods are starting to freak me out.

I was thinking of hosting my Simpsons sound pack fro Quake... but then I thought "what if they release Quake 1 for free to promote DOOM 3 or some thing wacky like that?" Dun Dun DUn!!!

Well, I have to sit on this.  If I host TRPG files they're going to be just the nescessary client-side files, and none of the music files will have sound in them.... no scripts.vol, etc... because I could not handle downloads that horriffic.

Peace!

Note:  I heard PCgamer had noted TRPG in a recent mod list in one of their articles... maybe that is influencing this as well?
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« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2004 10:45 am CDT »
ok i admit it, i was tired. lol
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« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2004 11:16 am CDT »
I am already on it.. I got all this webspace with unlimited bandwidth, I might as well put it to good use..  Files should be up by Wed.
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« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2004 11:22 am CDT »
Well, you know PC Gamer did a huge article on TRPG a few years back.. They had a nice interview session with JI too.
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« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2004 11:23 am CDT »
I remember calling JI at work lol, he was funny.
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