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.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah, cheers.

I've stuck it on Edinburgh. I wonder if more data will slowly appear.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

*very* slowly. Take a long nap, have dinner, have a nice night out, check it in the morning.