Future of TPU Download Section

W1zzard · Jun 20, 2011, 01:42 PM

With most game demos either being released exclusively on Steam or not at all I wonder which direction our download section should be going.

We have tons of unused bandwidth (hundreds of TBs each month), which we could possibly put to a better use.

Any ideas? It should still live in the whole hardware ecosystem though.

mlee49 · Jun 20, 2011, 01:44 PM

Sublease the bandwidth and bring in revenue to support your vga addiction.

You could stockpile more database-like material: drivers, BIOS's, or news.

(FIH) The Don · Jun 20, 2011, 01:49 PM

all of that ^^^^ wont fill too much i think

streetfighter 2 · Jun 20, 2011, 02:32 PM

The first thing that comes to mind: TPU Game Servers!!

TheLaughingMan · Jun 20, 2011, 02:39 PM

Well you could beef up other parts of the download section of TPU.

Add an Free Essential software section and host downloads for basic needs software you can get for free. Things like Songbird, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, 7-Zip, CCleaner, uTorrent, Pidgin, Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc. A few of these are in the download section, but they are all so out of date, no one is going to download them. If they were updated and kept updated, I am sure more TPU members would download this stuff here.

If would be easier to check for updates to all that freeware on one site.

FordGT90Concept · Jun 20, 2011, 02:46 PM

You could offer your bandwidths to an open project like being a SourceForge download mirror.

W1zzard · Jun 20, 2011, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by FordGT90Concept

You could offer your bandwidths to an open project like being a SourceForge download mirror.

4 TB storage minimum

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Add an Free Essential software section and host downloads for basic needs software you can get for free. Things like Songbird, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, 7-Zip, CCleaner, uTorrent, Pidgin, Opera, Firefox, Chrome,

do people really download those apps from 3rd party sites? i rather google for the name and go to the author's site to make sure i get the latest version

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Originally Posted by streetfighter 2

The first thing that comes to mind: TPU Game Servers!!

we have lots of bandwidth but minimal cpu&memory. also it would not work well with the geographic diversity of tpuers

MoonPig · Jun 20, 2011, 02:53 PM

I need some more room for my porn addiction. How about i rent some?

On a serious note... How about offering a place for popular game updates? I for one know that some sites limit to a low download speed and i can max out from TPU

W1zzard · Jun 20, 2011, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonPig

for popular game updates?

havent seen many of those recently

TheMailMan78 · Jun 20, 2011, 03:33 PM

I would dump the game demos and patches man. Like you said I go to the website itself to make sure I get the latest version. Maybe use that extra bandwidth to relaunch GPU again?! I couldn't contribute last time because of my job but if you launch it again you got my support.......whatever thats worth lol.

WhiteLotus · Jun 20, 2011, 03:37 PM

Video reviews.

EDIT: To clarify, instead of all those pictures in the video card reviews, you can just replace them with a single video clip. Unboxing the card, card installed.
Same for case reviews, and motherboard reviews (hoping that takes off)

Even game reviews if you get the people to do it.

cadaveca · Jun 20, 2011, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by WhiteLotus

Video reviews.

While interesting, the actual work that goes into making decent video is not something I'm too eager to take on. W1zz does alot of editing for my reviews that I'd not want to dump on him for video too, either.

With proper lighting, pictures are some work, but video is exponentially more work, and I don't think you could just replace the pics with video...both would still need to be done.

mlee49 · Jun 20, 2011, 03:45 PM

I'd love to do video reviews but editing takes more time than just writing it up.

cheesy999 · Jun 20, 2011, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by W1zzard

With most game demos either being released exclusively on Steam or not at all I wonder which direction our download section should be going.

We have tons of unused bandwidth (hundreds of TBs each month), which we could possibly put to a better use.

Any ideas? It should still live in the whole hardware ecosystem though.

If you can roll back to bandwidth to save money i'd do that before all else i know the TPU GPU-Z competitions were popular so it would be great if you could do them without sponsorship from companies using the money that would of gone to bandwidth

WhiteLotus · Jun 20, 2011, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by cadaveca

While interesting, the actual work that goes into making decent video is not something I'm too eager to take on. W1zz does alot of editing for my reviews that I'd not want to dump on him for video too, either.

With proper lighting, pictures are some work, but video is exponentially more work, and I don't think you could just replace the pics with video...both would still need to be done.

That is fair enough. Though a gaming review would be great. That's just recording the game play, and implementing a voice over. That can't be that difficult for the more experienced computer user out there.

Providing these reviews were "official" and followed a specific format. Though obviously, one persons favourite game, is another persons hated game, it's all down to the individual.

W1zzard · Jun 20, 2011, 05:04 PM

there are no plans for video reviews at any time soon at tpu

Easy Rhino · Jun 20, 2011, 05:11 PM

tpu proxy server? give me root access to the hardware and i could come up with all sorts of uses!!!

W1zzard · Jun 20, 2011, 05:13 PM

tpu proxy server + banned forum user + child porn = no more tpu

Easy Rhino · Jun 20, 2011, 05:17 PM

too bad. are there any non-profit organizations out there that could use a download mirror?

Batou1986 · Jun 20, 2011, 05:29 PM

The beginning of a tpu mobile formatted site ?

cheesy999 · Jun 20, 2011, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Batou1986

The beginning of a tpu mobile formatted site ?

the idea was to use up bandwidth... not reduce it

Batou1986 · Jun 20, 2011, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by cheesy999

the idea was to use up bandwidth... not reduce it

The way i see it allot of TPU users have smartphones the amount of mobile traffic would easily exceed the almost nill bandwidth being used by the games section now.
Being able to easily read news, reviews, check pm's, latest forum post's, upload images etc would be quite useful to alot of ppl.

Not that this all cant be done now on a mobile browser, but it could be optimized.

Another idea would be user drop boxes to store stuff and share links to it, the issue of illegal content remains tho.

Easy Rhino · Jun 20, 2011, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Batou1986

Another idea would be user drop boxes to store stuff and share links to it, the issue of illegal content remains tho.

i don't see why that issue exists. there are TONS of ways for people to store illegal content already.

Kreij · Jun 20, 2011, 08:38 PM

I'd like to see a games database, but I'm not sure if that fits into the "hardware ecosystem".
I think it would get a fair amount of traffic if there was a lot of good information.

Batou1986 · Jun 20, 2011, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Easy Rhino

i don't see why that issue exists. there are TONS of ways for people to store illegal content already.

Yea but if someone host a crack or keygen for something here and then links it on other websites I figured it would cause problems with Wizz getting DMCA take down notices and the like

Jun 20, 2011, 01:42 PM	#1
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