One of the recent updates to Steam made it possible to chose a remote location from where to download the custom maps. This means that when a player connects to your server and does not have the custom map the player will automatically download the map from our fast web servers instead of the game server, which is hard coded to a much slower speed. With the use of this server variable and our services a 10 megabyte map only takes about 1-2 minutes to download. The steam update allows for the map, sounds, wads, models and anything else needed by the map to be downloaded from our fast servers
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