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120701 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> Well, the simpler alternative in my case wb to use the UoT service. |
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> I can 'ssh' into a CLI on the CHASS machine, which runs Irix, |
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> then use 'wget' from there with a very fast connection. |
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> Downloading a file from there to here would remain fairly slow, |
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> but it wouldn't be subject to any throttling or slicing. |
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I just did just that. CHASS has a 5 Gb/s Internet connection, |
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so the whole file ( 25 MB ) arrived before the boom fell after c 39 s . |
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They don't have Wget (!), but Lynx does the job equally well. |
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Then I used Fuse to mount the remote dir locally |
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& downloaded the file to my machine at c 75 KB/s in c 5 min ; |
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I could have used Krusader instead & got a pretty progress box. |
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BTW the file is a book mentioned by Carla Schroeder yesterday. |
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I don't really need it, but it looked interesting. |
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