AW: Need help: Test Downloading SignBank on the web...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 7, 2003

Nana - You don't need to download. You are a member now, and I will be 
sending you a CD - That is why I send people CDs now. The downloading 
is too large...Of course I could break the downloads up...but it is 
better that I send you the CD, which I hope to do soon...

And Charles, I will try to send you a CD too, although I don't know if 
you have a enough memory to run the Runtime... Val ;-)

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On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 02:58 AM, Nana Dumitra wrote:

> YEEEEEEESSSSSS, that sounds good. It makes me feel really understood 
> (grin).
> Nana
>
> -----Urspr ÿÿ gliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Daniel Noelpp [mailto:d.noelpp at GMX.CH]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 07. Oktober 2003 14:33
> An: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
> Betreff: Re: Need help: Test Downloading SignBank on the web...
>
>> Dear SW List, Nana and Charles -
>> Charles just telephoned me to tell me that it took soooo long to
>> download the large SignBank on the web, that he was unable to finish
>> the download...In his case, the zip file was there on his desktop, but
>> with nothing in it! Meanwhile with my very fast cable modem
>> (broadband), I have no problems and I download it in less than five
>> minutes and there are always files there...
>
> I started downloading and the files will be here in 10 minutes.
>
> But I need to talk about my experience in India with downloading
> files. The phones are not so good in developping countries and
> I realized that downloads of more than 10 megabytes are
> impossible because of disconnects.
>
> At a rate of 1 kb a second the runtime is downloaded in
> 44 thousand seconds, that means 12 hours. That would
> be manageable but the disconnects force the people to
> restart from scratch and usually there is a disconnect every
> hour or so.
>
> To make downloads possible you have two options (and you
> could combine both): Support resumable downloads and split
> the file in say 10 smaller parts of 5 megabytes each.
>
> Please ask someone knowlegdeable about resumable downloads
> and splitting files. People from countries with bad phone lines
> will be very grateful.
>
> I looked at the Download Manager now and about two thirds of
> the stuff is on my computer!
>
> Cheers!
> Daniel
>