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Ty, i`ve already done that. The point of my posts was more about having the mod creators: 1. make sure in the first place that they check their own work before making it public (or at least before it is posted in the mod spreadsheet). And 2. assuming responsibility for correcting their mistakes if some slipped through. I believe it`s more efficient this way instead of having each and every past and future end user of any mod correct the mod`s creator`s mistakes on their own, don`t you think the same? Isn`t this actually the job of any software/mod/content creator?
That's not true : it mostly depends on where you live and what ISP, you have. Not everybody have access to fibre. Depend on money, country and many other things. USA's users are minorities.
Again, what you say is only partially true. ALL ISP`s interconnections(the connections between different ISP`s) are
required to be made at high or very high speed connections, especially between 2 ISP`s connecting 2 different countries. Usually this interconnections are made at tengigabite fiber connections. You will NEVER see an interconnection between 2 major ISP`s made on 100mb/s ethernet cables or even slower connections(which have been deprecated for over a decade almost everywhere in the world already) . If you do a traceroute to ANY ip or site or server in the world, you will see that you usually have between 5-7 hops up to 20-25 hops at maximum if that IP/site/server really is on the other side of the globe. Those hops are the interconnections between the various servers of the various ISP`s on the route your package has to take to reach that IP/site/server that you have used for the traceroute. Meaning that you have to pass through those ISP`s to get a download at your home(or wherever you are) from that ip/site/server that is anywhere in the world. And as i said already, all the interconnections between the major ISP`s are done at tengigabite fiber connections, and logically, you will NEVER see a minor ISP with shitty infrastructure/connections connecting 2 countries or 2 major ISP`s. Now, on the scene of
LOCAL ISP`s, yes, you as a home user in a small village might be connected to a minor ISP providing you with a shitty or very limited link. But unless you are actually living in the middle of a jungle, you should know that your ISP is offering you simultaneously and on the same singular link, 2 speeds for "internet". One is the external internet, which is the speed at which you access a site or server that is not in your country. Usually this speed is limited by the contract type and connection between your own minor ISP and the larger ISP to which the minor ISP is connected to and of course, obviously, by the speed that you have signed for in the contract with your minor ISP. The other speed is for "metropolitan" internet, which is the speed at which you access a site or server that is inside your country. Now, the good thing about "metropolitan" internet is that this "internet" is
USUALLY limited by the speed of your own minor ISP network infrastructure (and
USUALLY the minor ISP`s network infrastructure is created on 100mb/s ethernet cables or 1-2 gb/s fibers or equivalent wifi/satellite connections - 100mb/s-300mb/s-500mb/s-1gb/s-2gb/s), the connection type and agreement that he has with the larger ISP (usually made on 1-2gb/s or even higher speed fiber connections or equivalent satellite connections) and the peer contracts that the minor and larger ISP have with the rest of the ISP`s from your country (these are interconnection agreements made between various local ISP`s from the same country which are usually made on 1-2gb/s fiber connections at the minimum, and usually there are multiple connections for load balancing and other purposes and can go up to tengigabite connections between the larger ISP`s). Which means: Yes, you could have a shitty download speed from a server hosted in a different country, but you could still have a good or even great dl speed from a server hosted in your own country, depending under what local ISP umbrella that server is hosted. I am not from or in USA, i am actually from a third world country and i have 300mb/s external and 1gb/s metropolitan fiber connection at home (guaranteed speeds by contract, not max speeds, like some shitty small providers do, they make you sign a contract for let`s say for example 100 mb/s MAX speed, but they actually give you 50 mb/s or even much MUCH less) for the equivalent of around 10$/month, which is pretty much standard around here in 2025. I used to own a very small "neighborhood" ISP company back in the 2005-2015`s which i started exactly because of the very high cost of using dial-up internet at that time so i have pretty extensive knowledge about this stuff.
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to test your speed to various ISP`s all around the world or in your own country, see how your speed varies to one or another.
When things are great, download is around 1Gb/s but average is more about 500 Mb/s.
If you already have this speeds it means you download a mod in under a minute or a few minutes at max so i don`t understand why you are complaining or what you are arguing about...
I can testify to that.
I'm in a third world country pretending to be first world (Australia) and in 2014 was living in a suburb less than 4km from the CBD of the country's biggest non-capital city where the only landline internet connections were via a copper line phone system so poorly maintained I couldn't even use broadband - I was stuck with dialup and even that used to drop out frequently in the middle of file downloads and force you to start again. The mobile options were all exorbitantly priced by both download and upload data combined, forcing you to think about your budget before downloading even a 100MB file.
By 2015 the publicly funded fibre optic network was rolled out to most major population centres and ISP charges started falling quickly (along with customer support) but it's only over the past 2-3 years a lot of Australia's rural areas have finally gained access to fibre.
I also used copper telephone landline dial-up 32-48kb/s internet, back in the 1999-2004`s. But that was, as i said, back in 1999-2004. Your experience is from 11 years ago. The whole world has evolved and upgraded since then, so i don`t see your point or the relevance of your post. Are you still using dial-up now, in 2025? Or are you a "special" case, still living in 2014?
Besides, this discussion started as a question if we should have sound in the videos or not. Sir Anal`s argument for NOT having sound was that the mods are heavy size-wise and that he has problems downloading them, even though he said afterwards that he has a 500mb-1gb/s connection to internet. I believe it is worth having sound for a better gaming experience, especially if you have the possibility to mute it if you want that at some point during your gaming, even if that means the mods will have a few extra mb size-wise. And as i previously said, if someone has a shitty slow connection to internet, he STILL has other options like downloading the mod on a stick someplace else with a better connection or using a download manager software on his own computer that will allow him to pause and resume the download over multiple days, in the end he still gets the mod. Depriving
everyone of something good and making all the world poorer just because a few don`t have the capability to download as fast as the rest of the world... It`s like writing EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE in Braille, just because there are a few blind people in the world. It`s just backwards and stupid. In my "humble" opinion.