Wolfram, who asked about the bandwidth, is already running a mirror https://download.bbbike.org/osm/planet/ (listed on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Downloading) so downloading it every week is likely trying to update his mirror.
marc tobias > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:46:20 +0100 > From: Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> > To: dev@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] planet.osm.org is verry slow > Message-ID: <4f5c3f2c-f3c9-0545-0dd2-98df390e4...@poole.ch> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Yes, there are now bandwidth restrictions on connections to > planet.openstreetmap.org because the usage had skyrocketed and outgoing > bandwidth was completely saturated. > > But the obvious question is: why are you even trying to download the > full planet twice within a fortnight? Particularly given the file can > easily be updated in situ. > > Simon _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev