"Nexus 2" client available via torrent

[Tim]

For a long while (2+ years), the only way you could download the LEGO Universe client was directly from my webserver. This is still a great method, but it has its problems. Some browsers can't handle files with a size measured in gigabytes (not to mention the 12.5 GB client), and others that did manage to download it had messed up somewhere along the way, rendering the .zip file corrupted. And, whenever core maintenance is performed (every few weeks), any downloads are interrupted, which most browsers can't handle.

The solution to the problem is to offer the client as a torrent. The only downside to this is that users need a torrent client (I prefer qBittorrent) installed, but once they have one, it knows what to do when given a .torrent file or a magnet link. Since torrents of made of many small parts, if something happens during the download, only one part needs to be re-downloaded before the torrent client can resume downloading the rest.

However, torrents operate on a peer-to-peer network, which means that people like you can help to distribute the client. All you have to do is download the torrent (just open this link - http://luniserver.com/client/nexus2.torrent - with a torrent client like qBittorrent installed) and leave it in the "seeding" state, which enables others to download the client - a little bit from you, and the rest from everybody else. This is a great way to help reduce downloading problems and server strain, and requires almost no technical knowledge.

Thanks for your help with the project, and invite your friends to join the community :)

[Tim]

Compressed version now available - http://luniserver.com/client/nexus2-zip.torrent