Questions about map download speed

[panic Veteran]

i think NOX map download speed is too slow.

Starcraft1 can quickly download maps that are over 1Mb.

However, NOX takes a long time to download 480kb

is it possible to make NOX map downloads faster?

An exe file with improved map downloading already exists?

[kitty Apprentice]

I have noticed a lot of your maps have unusually large .nxz files, that could be contributing to it. In some cases your .nxz is larger than your .map file.

Another factor is of course your upload speed and I know you are Korean so any NA/EU players are bound to suffer a bit.

Finally, back in 2000 I'm not sure what technologies they used for games. I know to host you only have to open UDP ports and TCP is generally much faster.

It is possible to have XWIS shoot the downloading user a packet that is received by either an external program or perhaps a built-in one to request a download via TCP connection. Would be a decent amount of work though and that's 1 more socket connection you need open.

[panic Veteran]

are you programmer?
what do you think of this issue.

[kitty Apprentice]

[Xandros Novice]

Well, big nxz for old maps is because mappers were using old map editor with bad nxz optimization. Afaik, current editors producing much smaller nxz files.
But protocol is slow, because of the constant small size of the packet (i don't know - maybe few bytes, 1kb as maximum).

[kitty Apprentice]

[panic Veteran]

As a result, the packet size is very small, so the nox does send is slower, right?
if i did modify the packet size on code section, is it can more fast?
(sorry i dont know about socket tcp/ip programming)

[Xandros Novice]