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

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>

Or you could use BitTorrent. As I understand it,
BitTorrent uploads different "Chunks" to each
downloader. As each downloader receives their chunk,
they start sharing that with all the other
downloaders. Soon everyone is uploading and
downloading at the same time. It actually gets more
efficient with more downloaders.

Adam


--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>