Aaah, the bad old days

[andrewducker]

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???

Comments

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

There's a bittorent posted on Slashdot; works like a charm. The NASA servers were slashdotted badly, and the only way to get it was via bittorrent.

The worst is when you want to get stuff on details on wherever - it's callign the NASA servers for that, and they're being hit by a bajillion people, so d/l of the detail data is very very slow.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

I think it's downloaded here. Something has...

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I love looking up where I'm going with Multimap then switching to the aerial view. You can use it to pinpoint exactly where you live on the map, and where landmarks are :-)

[broin.livejournal.com]

I thought BitTorrent was illegal?





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