[DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting

shaun everiss shaun.e at xtra.co.nz
Sun Apr 2 20:13:44 EDT 2006


then I am not one of those.
I use loads of bandwidth downloading the files.
Then I back it all up to cdrw and my external hdd and a directory on 
the laptop.
I can take it all over the place, I play this stuff on my stereo.
I only get files once unless I kill it by mistake.
At 11:22 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote:
>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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