[ian-reeds-games] Re: drop box problem
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:36:13 -0500
Hi Ian,
Here is what drop box has on it's site about the matter.
Bandwidth limits
Links that use up more than 20 GB/day for Basic (free) accounts and 200 GB/day
for Pro and Teams (paid) accounts are automatically suspended.
If your account hits our limit, we'll send an email notification to the email
address registered with your account. Shared links will be temporarily disabled,
and those who try to access the links will see an error page instead of your
file.
So essentially it is a per day limit, and not a per month percentage, at least,
that is how it reads to me.
I did have two other items in my public folder. One was a zipped folder with
some sounds for Carlos and his RedWall map. The other was religious in nature
and I thought it wasn't going to be downloaded by more then half a dozen people
. Apparently, I was wrong, so it is operator error in this situation I would
guess. Operator being me, grin.
Now my question is, since I do plan on making more map packs, and sticking them
in that folder, is this going to be a problem with dropbox?
I don't want to gut the map packs I make, just for bandwidth, but I like the
idea of being able to update the folder without anyone having to wait or
wonder if the other person has time or if the email got lost etc and so forth.
Maybe if we wait for the three days and put it back up, we can see what
happens. I tookthe other stuff out, so I am going to just use it for the maps.
I guess if I want more, I might consider buying an account.
What do you think?
al
"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Reed
To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:00 PM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: drop box problem
Allan, sorry to hear about the dropbox email.
I have never received an email like that and all my dev versions have
been shared through public links.
I wonder if the bandwidth limit is restored a certain amount each day.
It may be that because your dropbox account is brand new you started out
with 1 30th of a months allowance and immediately shared a large map
pack which used it up.
If I were dropbox I might do that to stop people from just creating new
accounts every time they wanted a fresh 20 gigs of bandwidth to share
public files.
It may get better as time goes on but if you find a better solution that
is great too.
I just can't imagine you using up 20 gigs with a single map pack link
that quickly. Another thing you can do is try to reduce the size of the
map pack by remove any sound or music files that are not used.
I hope it gets better as time goes on. Maybe we should take your link
down for a week while we wait for the 3 days to expire and give it some
time to build up bandwidth limit.
Let me know if you want me to to do that.
Ian Reed
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