[DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting

[Nick G]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] Bandwidth limiting


> 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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