Official Halo CE File Downloads at 1Gbps

**Cortexian** · May 5th, 2014 04:00 PM

I'm hosting the official Halo CE files for download off a 1Gbps server. Check the link for more details!

http://www.halo-ce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2

**Amit** · May 6th, 2014 05:39 PM

Awesome, thanks.

**Cortexian** · May 7th, 2014 12:19 AM

Absolutely!

If anyone has any suggestoins on what other kinds of files I should host this way, let me know! I'm considering SAPP, but I want to talk to sehe first to see if he'd like to make this an official "torrent" version of it. I'm hosting the tracker and everything so it's all manged by me.

And of course, if a community driven master-server workaround is ever created, I can host the nrequired patch/replacement files this way as well. I'll even host a pre-compiled build of the game with this community patch pre-installed if someone awesome like Kornman compiles an installer package or something.

**RadWolfie** · May 9th, 2014 09:06 PM

Then this would require modifying the download system for Open Sauce, HAC2, and SAPP (I think?). It is nice to have faster download than waiting 30 minutes for each maps from halomaps.org's website. Personally, I would not be able to create a plugin for this since I have a lot of tasks on my table and very limited free time. However, I'll let someone else do this and willing to add any necessary hooks in order to function properly.

**Cortexian** · May 9th, 2014 10:44 PM

This isn't for hooking into or downloading maps, just the official files / some popular ones like SAPP and HAC2 maybe.

**RadWolfie** · May 11th, 2014 03:48 AM

Hmm... I do get your point now. Although... I'm not sure if there's a reason to re-host the official files since there are bunch of official websites hosting the files such as FilePlanet, CNET, halomaps (yes it is slow and not really recommended anyway), GameFront, ModDB (not sure if this is actually uploaded by member of Bungie or Gearbox Software), etc.

I'm not saying you shouldn't be hosting the official files, it is up to you to host them anyway.

Cheers,
RadWolfie

**Amit** · May 11th, 2014 05:05 AM

The difference is that he is providing a superfast host for the download. Sure it's a small 131mB or whatever, but it's nice to have it downloaded within seconds rather than a minute or more

**RadWolfie** · May 11th, 2014 11:13 AM

Hmm... base on other download sites which takes few minutes vs Cortexian's new site only take few seconds... That's a major change for speed download, checked.

Oh btw it's 178,262,016 bytes. If you know what I'm saying. :P

**Jazzyboy1** · May 11th, 2014 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by RadWolfie

Hmm... base on other download sites which takes few minutes vs Cortexian's new site only take few seconds... That's a major change for speed download, checked.

Oh btw it's 178,262,016 bytes. If you know what I'm saying. :P

I don't know what you're saying. Amit used a lower-case b, so he was using bits. It is 130 megabits(Mb/mb). In bytes(B) though, it would be 170 megabytes(MB), yeah.

Anyway, yeah, if you have fibre, this site could be really useful.(I'm not getting fibre until September, but the more sites that allow fast downloads before then, the better)