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Do you think this file is too large to send to my customers?

by guillopuyol
6 replies
Hey Warriors,

I am getting close to releasing a product that will require a 195Mb file download.

Do you think this is file is too large to download, if so, what do you think should be my goal in Megabytes for the size of the file chunks?

Thanks for the help.

-G
#customers #file #large #send
  • Profile picture of the author schabotte
    For me, that is no problem. I have a 10MB download stream on my internet connection.

    But for slower connections - especially dialup, that is sort of big.

    While it is a doable size for any connection, I'd hate to have a dialup connection and have the download quit halfway through because of a burp on the line.

    I download free games from giveawayoftheday.com and it seems the threshold for folks with dialup connections there runs about 30-40 mb for a game. Bigger than that and the dialup folks start grumbling about the game file size being too big for them.
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    • Profile picture of the author guillopuyol
      Originally Posted by schabotte View Post

      For me, that is no problem. I have a 10MB download stream on my internet connection.

      But for slower connections - especially dialup, that is sort of big.

      While it is a doable size for any connection, I'd hate to have a dialup connection and have the download quit halfway through because of a burp on the line.

      I download free games from giveawayoftheday.com and it seems the threshold for folks with dialup connections there runs about 30-40 mb for a game. Bigger than that and the dialup folks start grumbling about the game file size being too big for them.
      Thanks Schabotte, this is the kind of answer I was looking for.

      -G
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  • Profile picture of the author POWERCENTER
    Is that compressed?? Obviously (.zip) format is preferred for most users
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    • Profile picture of the author guillopuyol
      Originally Posted by POWERCENTER View Post

      Is that compressed?? Obviously (.zip) format is preferred for most users
      Yes, it is compressed (zip)

      Thanks,

      G
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  • Profile picture of the author Chuck Evans
    I would put it on a file sharing server to save bandwidth on YOUR server. You could supply them an access code with either a number of tries of specified length of time to complete the download.

    chuck
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  • Profile picture of the author Kelly Verge
    S3 might look a little more professional, and it's dirt cheap.
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