Fast download tutorial
How to make clients to download your server`s files faster

It frequently happens that your clients have no patience to download the files of your server (sounds, maps, models and others) and they disconnect. As a result your server is always empty. Now we have a solution to this problem.

You will have to install a web server. First, download WampServer2 here and install it. Double click the executable and follow the installation steps. You will be asked if you want to make a desktop shortcut and a quick lunch icon. Chose both of them. The installer will install the server in your C partition in a directory called wamp.

Start the web server using the Shortcut and then look for a small icon in your Taskbar. Click on it and chose Start all services and then Put Online (if it gives you an error when you click Put Online, it means that your server already is online).

Now you can acces your web server in browser ( Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape) typing http://your ip (ex: http://85.123.123.45 – no port).
If your ip is dynamic, the solution is to create a DNS address on www.no-ip.com ad to keep it updated.
In this case you will access the web server using : http://server.no-ip.org .

Steps to set up the fast download

1. Start the server
2. Click Start all Services and Put Online ( if the server is not already online).
3. In the Taskbar menu click www.directory and the www folder will open. This is the main directory of your web server.
Create in this directory a new folder ( you can call it csfiles, or cs or anyhow).
4. Go to HLDS\cstrike folder of your counter strike server and copy from there the folders : sound, maps, models, sprites, gfx (you can copy the other ones too).
5. Paste those folders in the csfiles folder of your web server.
6. Open HLDS\cstrike\server.cfg and edit a line like this :

sv_downloadurl "http://your ip/csfiles/
or
sv_downloadurl "http://your dns/csfiles (make sure that the dns address is upadated)

Now you can open the Counter Strike server. Your clients will download the sounds, the maps or the models in a matter of seconds and you won`t be losing any client because of that.

Warning ! Run the web server when your counter strike server is online.
Update the DNS address if your ip changes.