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Sidewinder53 / mirrorsedgearchive

Web code base of the Mirror's Edge Archive
https://www.mirrorsedgearchive.org
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Offer advanced download options like torrent #5

Open 1970633640 opened 3 years ago

1970633640 commented 3 years ago

Nice site! So many materials about Mirror's edge franchise!

But many files in https://archive.mirrorsedgearchive.de/ are huge and users may not have fast and stable enough Internet access to view or download through http (e.g. download may fail half and users have to try again). So it is nice to have torrent as an option to download.

Torrent (Bittorrent protocol) can make sure the downloaded file is correct and users can resume downloading after network error. Also, it is awesome to download only part of files in a torrent file and the more users downloading, the faster.

Sidewinder53 commented 3 years ago

Hi! Thank you for your feedback. We'll consider this for our next release.

Torrent (Bittorrent protocol) can make sure the downloaded file is correct and users can resume downloading after network error.

Can you elaborate how this would improve the download experience? If you are running on a spotty connection with high packet loss or frequent disconnects, you can use a third-party program such as jDownloader or Internet Download Manager that supports resuming downloads and checking integrity, which would bring the same benefits.

Also, it is awesome to download only part of files in a torrent file and the more users downloading, the faster.

This is true, however the bandwidth of our systems is not saturated by user downloads. I agree that offering Bittorrent downloads would improve download speeds, if our systems were overloaded.

1970633640 commented 3 years ago

resuming downloads and checking integrity

Bittorrent protocol uses some advanced techs such as Merkle tree so if checking integrity failed, usually users only have to download very small part of it rather than the whole file.

however the bandwidth of our systems is not saturated by user downloads.

Maybe the server offers big bandwidth, but users with Tier 2 or Tier 3,4,... networks from foreign countries can only download slowly like less than 100KB/s. When using torrents, seeder and downloader will automatically negotiate threads so the download speed can be faster and not draining both's network.

it is awesome to download only part of files

From my observation, on the website users can download one file or a folder and all its leaves (like a tree). Using torrents users will have more options to customize download.

Though there will be a problem. There are too many files, so if all files are not being compressed into less zipped files, the torrent file will be a bit too large. Some files such as many pictures from one artbook should be compressed so the numbers of files will be less. Maybe more studies are required 🤔.