Fringewood opened this issue on Sep 27, 2009 · 6 posts
Fringewood posted Mon, 28 September 2009 at 6:51 PM
It's 12 KB/s, which relates roughly to a 100k line in comparison to the 5M capacity I have. (I've been working at internet design and interactive server development, as well as 3D, since the early 90's, so lessons I don't need. Transfer rate is usually in expressed in bytes, whereas BAUD capacity is usually in bits, since audio signal rate isn't octal digital.)
Renderosity is rather infamous for it's sporadic bottlenecking because of high traffic on the server complex on which it resides, so transfer rate may be quite good sometimes and absolutely horrid at others. The least that could have been done was to choose a file server on a backbone with a dependable outflow, instead of the very iffy connection it's using now. (I know this bandwidth syndrome well from the decade I've been here.)
My domain sits on a backbone, and there is never a router bottleneck for downloading my files like there is now at R'osity. My direct downloads are never slow, always at a user's capacity.
All I can say is that except for Nursoda's work, I don't buy at the Marketplace any more. And if Nursoda sold his goods elsewhere, that is where I'd buy them. This has driven my money away.
This has created a pretty intense backlash. Not the first, no doubt not the last. But it's my last. I've had enough of the business model here. I've had enough of most of the business models in the community, because the decisions like this are not made with nearly enough foresight about the repercussions.
I'm bone tired of the lack of sensitivity by the stores.
As for naming, I catalog by what the item is, for utility searchability in scene assembly, not who made it. That's what the read-mes are for. Yeah, the occasional runtime.zip files needed to be renamed, but not every stinking file name had to be altered front and back. I want all my eggs in one folder, not scattered all over the place. Renaming files from here now is a real pain. It has to be something very special for me to grab it here now.
As much as I'd like to get over the resentment, it's there every time I download a file.