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andrewducker) wrote2004-09-25 02:37 pm
andrewducker) wrote2004-09-25 02:37 pm
Aaah, the bad old days
I fancied taking a look at the NASA World Wind project - which produces images of the earth from all angles. Looks extremely pretty, but is about 250MB.
So I started downloading it. And got about 35k/s. Which was going to take _ages_. Oh, and dropped the connection 25 minutes in. Why they haven't got a bittorrent set up I really don't know.
So I reverted back to my pre-broadband methods - grabbed a copy of GetRight and am now downloading from 6 mirrors of the file, for a total of 150kB/s. Much more like it.
Hmm. Now dropped back down in speed, as half of the mirrors seem to be borked.
Sigh. BitTorrent people! How hard can it be???
So I started downloading it. And got about 35k/s. Which was going to take _ages_. Oh, and dropped the connection 25 minutes in. Why they haven't got a bittorrent set up I really don't know.
So I reverted back to my pre-broadband methods - grabbed a copy of GetRight and am now downloading from 6 mirrors of the file, for a total of 150kB/s. Much more like it.
Hmm. Now dropped back down in speed, as half of the mirrors seem to be borked.
Sigh. BitTorrent people! How hard can it be???
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