[DECtalk] the archive is messed up

Fri Oct 13 00:52:42 EDT 2006

Hi,
I have no idea what's going on there.
The reason it's going too slow at my site is that I have implemented
bandwidth restriction.  The DECtalk archive is limited to 8 kilobytes per
second, total.  So if two people were downloading at the same time, each
person would only get 4 kilobytes per second, and so on.
Also, the Nyud.net thing still has to download from me, so it's stuck with
the same low bandwidth that everybody else is.  But once a file has been
downloaded, it can send it to you at a much faster speed.  What probably
happened is that Nyud grabbed a chunk of the file you wanted, then sent that
chunk to you at fast speed, but then had to slow down once it realized it
wasn't getting any faster speeds from me.  One thing I have done a few times
is to "kickstart" the Nyud servers downloading a given file by starting a
download then aborting it.  Even though you aborted the download, Nyud will
finish the download from my site.  Later, you can then go and get the file
at fast speed from them.
Jayson.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the archive is messed up

> Hy jayson, I tried to download stuff fron your site but it was going to
slowly.
> So I used the one at nyud.net.
> Thare a few issues with that.
> Sometimes nyud will just slow down and sppeed up for no reason what so
ever.
> It will also download say 24kb of a 800kb file or whatever sometimes
> and say its done, ie will at least but it aint and I need to reget
> the file which then will download correctly.
> At 11:53 a.m. 13/10/2006, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >For those who have forgotten, the HTTP address for the DECtalk archive is
> >http://www.bluegrasspals.com/dectalk
> >Read the 00readme.txt for info about the other mirror.  Remember, at this
> >point Planetmirror isn't hosting the archive any more.
> >Jayson.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Matthew Horspool" <matthew at thehorspools.com>
> >To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:28 PM
> >Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the archive is messed up
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Woe, it's got big!  Back in the andrelouis.com days it was only 450
MB!
> >My folder is 2 GB exactly, but I still have the jokerdog
> > > and talking dictionary stuff so that's an irrelevent figure.  Then
again,
> >I have the software in a separate directory as it's a
> > > programme and I don't want to run programmes in "f:\default
> >user\dectalk\public\software", so that might counteract the additional
> > > files a bit.
> > >
> > > I never use the Planet Mirror, primarily because I downloaded
everything
> >there was back then from andrelouis.com, so I just add bits
> > > and suffer the 8 KBPS limit whenever something's updated.  Actually,
now I
> >come to think of it, I used to just sync jayson's FTP
> > > folder with mine, but then gave up because nothing was added for a
couple
> >of months.
> > >
> > > I'm now hosting my DECtalk files on
> > > ftp://thehorspools.bounceme.net:21
> > > but this server is just a home Windows PC on a home LAN which can't be
> >left on all the time.  You should get a good 30 KB/S, though.
> > > If the server doesn't work, please wait a few hours and try again.
Sorry,
> >but this is the best I can do at the moment.  I can't
> > > host a web copy because:
> > > 1.  I don't know how.
> > > 2.  My ISP won't let me.
> > >
> > > NOTE: this is not the DECtalk archive - it's the archive plus some
> >additional bits.  In short, it's not a mirror, but it's got all
> > > the stuff.  I don't intend to become a mirror, although I'll keep
> >downloading what's new.  Mirroring, though, means deleting as
> > > well, which I honestly don't want to do.
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jayson Smith" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>
> > > To: "DECtalk Discussions" <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:06 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [DECtalk] the archive is messed up
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > ... I have a few questions pertaining to Planetmirror.  Now that they
have
> >completely deleted the whole archive, with the exception
> > > of exactly one relatively unimportant and tiny file, what do we do?
Are
> >people actually using the Planetmirror copy?  I really hate
> > > to put that much of a bandwidth drain on my system at this time.  The
> >archive, as it stands now, is over 1.4 gigabytes.  At less
> > > than 30 KB per second that's going to take a *long* time to download
all
> >over again!  Plus, it might bring the "questionable" nature
> > > of some of our files to their attention when they're suddenly
downloading
> >tons of stuff from the archive.  If someone else has the
> > > bandwidth and is willing to privately mirror the archive that might
> >honestly be a better option.  What do you think?  ...
> > >
> > >
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