Custom Map download speed

[Kaekitus]

It seems since the server has moved the custom maps take forever to download off the server. Can this be fixed? Its rough and may be off putting for non-regulars to stick on the server past one map if it goes to something like pl_dustbowl and they don't have it.

[Levi]

Hell, pl_dustbowl alone makes me leave and I've already got it downloaded.

[thewiredknight]

cobra and I ran into this problem last month when the move occured, I thought it was fixed though. Dunno though haven't downloaded a map in a while.

[Ripskin]

I remember trying to join the map you two were on and he told me to just DL it somewhere else, cant think of the map now though.

[Zervun]

I'm not sure what to do about it. I think that steam for whatever reason is throttling it and I can't find any info on how to take it off.

I ran speed tests and the bandwidth on the server is huge. It's pretty much uncapped.

[Ripskin]

Is the server itself limiting the datarates? I remember having to open those up when I had a few people downloading my map directly from the server...

[Zervun]

The physical linux server wouldn't be as I've done transfers off and recieved massive speeds. I'm pretty sure it's some setting within steam/tf2 server and I can't find it.

A test transfer I did the other day was around 50Mbps / 6.25 MBps. Considering that some of the smaller maps aren't even that size thats blazing fast.

Max "theoretical" for a 100baseT connection is around 88Mbps. (I did network speed testing at Intel for a while).

[Ripskin]

I think TF2 defaults the data rate to like 20kb/s or something which is painful.

But with those numbers the system can more than handle it lol.