At 08:47 06-05-2002 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote: >How's your bandwidth?
Never enough. :-) But seriously, it is impossible to beforehand determine the available bandwidth. Due to the nature of a cable connection, I have to share the bandwidth with whoever else on this cable segment has Internet by cable and happens to be on-line. I have seen upload/download speeds of 160 Kb/s, I have seen upload/download speeds of 0.1 Kb/s... Maybe we should try something smaller first, say only the year 2002 part of the archive. The compressed file should not be all that big, and it should give us some idea of what the end product will look like. >Care to FTP me 70 MB? Tell me (off-list) where to send it and what settings I need to enter in my FTP client, and I will see what I can do. >If you want to play with the messages in MySQL, ftp them to me (the new >machine, when it's up) and I'll get them into MySQL. If you like what you >find, then you can decide if you want to do the same thing locally. If so, >I'll help, possibly in far more interesting ways that you might imagine. Oh! Now you got me curious! Tell me more! :-) >I've been giving a lot of consideration to how a P2P discussion >archiving/analysis system might work. Could you explain that to someone who ought to know what you are talking about but really does not? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
