Re: Movie of Wendover Coil Vs USAF test model aircraft.

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Original poster: "Terry Blake" <tb3@xxxxxxx>

Hi all,

No luck yet, but when I get the files, I'll post them on tb3.com.
It does have super high bandwidth and capacity.

Cheers.

Terry Blake

Coiling in Chicago
http://www.tb3.com/


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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: Movie of Wendover Coil Vs USAF test model aircraft.


> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> It is like one of those Star Wars movies or Harry Potter things!!  Server
> requests are lined up for blocks :o))
>
> Lets see:  The file is about 85Meg and there are about 1500 people on the
> list.  If everyone downloads it, that would be 127.5 G bytes.  The server
> upload channel speed is 31k bytes per sec....  127.5G / 31k = 4.1M seconds
> or 47 days...  Gosh!!  We are not going to get there soon...
>
> BTW - Please do not try to open say 50 channels to try and get it to go
> faster!!  That clogs everything up bad.  It is pure bandwidth limited...
>
> So the normally dull little hot-streamer.com just does not have the
> bandwidth to really do it :-p  The pupman servers are in pretty much the
> same boat, so I can't just mail it to everyone...
>
> So let's suppose we all want it in just one day...  We would need a server
> that could handle a 85M file, 1500 transfers, 130Gbytes/day....
>
> If anyone is sitting on a nuclear powered server with a little extra space
> (100Meg) I would be happy to get it uploaded there ;-))  I don't think P2P
> would help much since just the single source would get bombed just the
same
> in the short term...
>
> The movie is very high quality and about 7-1/2 minutes long.  A person is
> explaining the thing for the first few minutes and then there are full
coil
> shots for a while and a lot of close ups zapping a little model plane.  I
> tried to reduce the size with the usual tricks, but Mike's brand new
> hardware is better than all my stuff!  The file size is pretty much as
> small as possible without hurting the very nice quality...
>
> I did cut it way down to just the coil's hot shots in DIVX5 format at
about
> 10Meg for the dial up folks.  But they are still at the end of the line
;-(
>
> So I am thinking if we had like 3 big bandwidth servers, I could upload
the
> original and the cut version to them...  I would probably have to pull
> hot-streamer off line but I would try not to break it while someone has
> like 1K left of the file to go :o)  Or, if there were just one server that
> had super high bandwidth and capacity...  Once the initial rush is over,
> Hot-streamer can retake the load in a day or two...
>
> Fortunately, I have 100Mbps connections directly to the server so "I" can
> see it just fine >:D
>
> So the call goes out to anyone that could spare 100M bytes of web space
and
> probably get blasted with say 500 requests and 50Gig of file transfers
over
> a days or two!!  I can easily FTP the files as needed!!  There are a
number
> of folks that have downloaded it, so if anyone could open up a "second
> source" ;-))
>
> I don't know if Mike or others have any other big movies, but maybe we
> should plane this stuff a little better next time ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>          Terry
>
>
>
>
> At 04:43 PM 4/14/2005, you wrote:
> >Has anyone been able to download that file?  The connection (high-speed
> >cable modem) always times out when I try it.  I sure would like to see
> >the movie.
> >
> >Ed
>
>