What better? Content pack in Workshop or FastDL by GoogleCode?

[Koji6ac9H]

Hello everyone.
Do not tell me that it is better and faster to use, content pack in the workshop on the server that is signed or FastDL from Google Code?

[lorde banana]

GoogleCode isn't for FastDL, it's for code hosting. Use the Workshop, don't waste their bandwidth.

It's tons faster to do 1 HTTP request to download a content pack versus 400 to download each individual file.

[Koji6ac9H]

[QUOTE=Banana Lord.;41775416]GoogleCode isn't for FastDL, it's for code hosting. Use the Workshop, don't waste their bandwidth.

It's tons faster to do 1 HTTP request to download a content pack versus 400 to download each individual file.[/QUOTE]

But in bz2 format files in less than 2 times

[OzymandiasJ]

[QUOTE=Koji6ac9H;41781498]But in bz2 format files in less than 2 times[/QUOTE]

Steam workshop compresses files, do you think Valve is made of a bunch of fucktards? (7z LZMA if I'm not mistaken is smaller than Bzip)

[lorde banana]

[QUOTE=Koji6ac9H;41781498]But in bz2 format files in less than 2 times[/QUOTE]

Okay, let's put it this way:

- A 20MB content pack that you're downloading for enough time that your internet speed actually maxes out. Also downloaded from Valve's CDN (which means the player gets the pack from their nearest Valve server instead of your UK players getting it from Dallas, Texas)
- 400 small files (which are larger than 20MB because the compression is worse) that require you to connect to the HTTP server, start downloading, close the connection, and repeat for every single file