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

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

Hi all,

Here is the short version Terry F made.  9MB.

http://www.tb3.com/tesla/golka/golka_short.avi

Still waiting on the big one.

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



----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Movie of Wendover Coil Vs USAF test model aircraft.


> 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/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>  >
>  >
>
>