GreenAsJade Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Will there be some sort of queuing or other load management in place when this thing comes out? Or is it every man for himself, pray smoke doesn't come out of the ethernet running to BFC when downloads are opened? GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheer Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I´m pretty sure BFC uses sumthing like Akamai or another cloudservice for their bandwith ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Good news - yay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 So you didn't get your "pre-order priority coupon" then? Pity .... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Where does it talk about this? I thought pre-order was for those wanting the steel box. Since right now me and my folk are struggling for pennies, the steel box was not something I could lash out on... GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 No sorry just pulling your leg. I don't believe there's any priority access system (but of course "we" are likely to be downloading it when "they" have gone to sleep). If I get it relatively early I'll send you a link. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarkWGriswold Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 A torrent would probably work well. The mad rush that's virtually guaranteed on release day is tailor made for a torrent solution, and BFC wouldn't even need much in the way of seed servers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 GaJ, I think I know what you're trying to do. At some point into this discussion, I believe you're planning to drop the following line: "Being the altruist that I am, I would like to take some of the burden off of BFC's shoulders. Just let me download it first and I will put it up in CMMODS so people who have the activation code can download it from there. Oh, and please send it to me immediately so that I can start, uh, preparing my server..." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 A torrent would probably work well. The mad rush that's virtually guaranteed on release day is tailor made for a torrent solution, and BFC wouldn't even need much in the way of seed servers. I trust Battlefront has a good guess what bandwidth will be needed, and today there are good solutions to guarantee the availability of that bandwidth. I always had good download speeds for CMSF products, and I downloaded most of them within hours of release. I am afraid you will have to look for something else to worry about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 On the other hand, demand for this product is apt to be unprecedented in BFC's experience. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 On the other hand, demand for this product is apt to be unprecedented in BFC's experience. Michael They know how many pre-orders they have, they can connect the dots from there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von shrad Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I think Mr. Emrys is quite right. It seems with this release counting the many old timers who've wanted a return to the theater coupled with all of the CMSF fans excited about a 'new' experience with an engine already close to them that it will in fact result in a demand 'unprecedented in BFC's experience'. I also believe they have indeed connected the dots and it spelled out SUCCESS. The anticipation here is very high. von shrad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnersman Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 They usually have mirror sites for their products. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 On the other hand, demand for this product is apt to be unprecedented in BFC's experience. I wish it for the Battlefront people, but old farts usually fade away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClarkWGriswold Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 I trust Battlefront has a good guess what bandwidth will be needed, and today there are good solutions to guarantee the availability of that bandwidth. I always had good download speeds for CMSF products, and I downloaded most of them within hours of release. I am afraid you will have to look for something else to worry about. Not sure what gives you the impression I'm worried about it (or perhaps you're simply being snarky). But when you've got thousands of people all trying to download a gigabyte+ file, a torrent is a good solution. It requires relatively little bandwidth to start seeding, and then takes care of itself from there. I'm sure BFC will do what is necessary to ensure adequate bandwidth on D-day, but wanted to point out that swarming is a perfect, legal, and nearly free solution to these sorts of issues. My guess is that demand for CMBN is going to blow away every other Battlefront product to date. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 He's just being snarky. Excuse us, Erik, for posting ... us old farts just to like to chinwag eh? GaJ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 ...old farts usually fade away. But in closely enclosed spaces they don't. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Some of us are still here and soldiering on. But I must admit my enthusiasm for Bocage and what happened on two of the three beaches has wained. Looking fwd to hopefully working on the Commonwealth module (and gasp, no doubt heresy here but, CM:SF2 in due course). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finalcut Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 I'm downloading it now with no problems.I thought there would be more of a rush on downloads.Weird. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Stop that! Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Springelkamp Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Not sure what gives you the impression I'm worried about it (or perhaps you're simply being snarky). A high level of anticipation usually comes with all kinds of worries. But when you've got thousands of people all trying to download a gigabyte+ file, a torrent is a good solution. It requires relatively little bandwidth to start seeding, and then takes care of itself from there. I'm sure BFC will do what is necessary to ensure adequate bandwidth on D-day, but wanted to point out that swarming is a perfect, legal, and nearly free solution to these sorts of issues. But you have to configure your firewall. And every buyer will immediately close down the sharing program as soon as they have their file, in order to play the game, so most seeds will dry up before they have finished delivering. Imagine all the support calls of customers who have technical problems, that is expensive. A friend of mine worked a few years on a system of video-delivery based on the principle of file-sharing (but with a lot of encryption and security). In the end they just drove the system by supplying massive amounts of direct server bandwidth. A world of technical inept consumers works different from a community of hobbyists who accept hiccups because it is free. My guess is that demand for CMBN is going to blow away every other Battlefront product to date. On an absolute scale in today's internet world it is still not very much. When they just make a deal with some companies to provide the bandwidth, all will be much smoother. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 And every buyer will immediately close down the sharing program as soon as they have their file, in order to play the game, so most seeds will dry up before they have finished delivering. Not to mention that for "most" / "all" this becomes an "upload" that they then have to pay for (or at least contributes towards their monthly "quota" for traffic). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 For our full game downloads, we are using a cloud server network with unlimited bandwidth and 100% uptime. The cloud has international access points, too, meaning that there are usually no download speed differences no matter where you are in the world. Usually the only thing limiting your speed are your own ISP and/or any bottlenecks in between, and we can't do anything about those. We had a number of large releases via this cloud before and there have not been any issues that I can remember, ever. It is easily able to handle tens of thousands of parallel downloads, no problem. It is bloody expensive, but for our customers, we only choose the best 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 25, 2011 Author Share Posted April 25, 2011 As I said: Yay. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyJJ Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 For our full game downloads, we are using a cloud server network with unlimited bandwidth and 100% uptime. The cloud has international access points, too, meaning that there are usually no download speed differences no matter where you are in the world. Usually the only thing limiting your speed are your own ISP and/or any bottlenecks in between, and we can't do anything about those. We had a number of large releases via this cloud before and there have not been any issues that I can remember, ever. It is easily able to handle tens of thousands of parallel downloads, no problem. It is bloody expensive, but for our customers, we only choose the best Awesome. We have a T3 connection to our office shared by only about 20 people so I should get a decent download speed, then. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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