[DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
Planetmirror hadn't been downloading new Vocalwriter stuff.  I used a Linux
command on that directory and the next time they ran their script they
grabbed new stuff from the Vocalwriter folder which had been added in late
February.  As far as I know the Planetmirror mirror is now complete.  The
Internet is going a lot faster with bandwidth limiting in place.  I really
hate to do this, and hope to find a way to avoid effecting portions of
bluegrasspals.com other than the DECtalk archive.  Note that, at present,
FTP access has no bandwidth limiting in force.  This is so Planetmirror
won't be effected, since they only grab what is new anyway.  On the subject
of which...
If any of you are running mirroring scripts to keep your own private or even
public mirror of the archive, please insure they are running correctly.  A
good mirroring script or program won't download a file when it already has a
copy of the exact same file.  It will download any given file if it has no
copy of the file or the file on the site being mirrored is newer or,
possibly, has a different length than that contained locally.  Also, if you
want to listen to a file many times, please download the file only once and
save it locally for later listening.  Please do not download a file over and
over and over just because you love it.  I know this is quite obvious, but
anybody who does that is hogging up bandwidth unnecessarilly.
Jayson.

----- Original Message -----
From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting


> Hmmm
> They must not have all the files then.
> I must say when I use the archive, I just chip away till I have all
> the new files.
> When I origionally did it I probably used everything there was.
> However unless there is new files I never hit the archive.
> I thought that the planetmirror archives were not complete and due to
> copywrites and things they wouldn't be which is why I never used them.
> Can you varify how complete that mirror is.
> At 09:00 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >Well, I'm sorry it has come to this.  We've been having lots of slowdowns
> >recently and it seems that the DECtalk archive is contributing to a large
> >bandwidth suckage.  Therefore, I have put in a 8 KB per second bandwidth
> >limit on the bluegrasspals.com site.  I'd like to make it only for the
> >DECtalk directory but don't know how at the moment.  Planetmirror is now
> >downloading new Vocalwriter stuff, so their mirror should be up to date
> >soon.
> >I hope to be able to turn this limiting off, if those of you responsible
for
> >all the large downloading would just use the mirror.  That's what it's
there
> >for, folks!  The URLs are as follows.
> >For HTTP: http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/dectalk
> >For FTP:  ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/dectalkk
> >I'd like to point these out in such a way that all visitors would be
highly
> >encouraged to use the mirror.  I don't really want to go to a
> >username/password system which would force users to actually read a page
> >with instructions instead of just download, download, download but I
could
> >have to.  Maybe the bandwidth cap would encourage people to use the
mirror.
> >I really, really, really don't want to pull the archive, nor am I going
to
> >ask for donations.  If anybody has any thoughts, feel free to chime in.
> >Jayson.
> >
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