But at least this would allow Erik, researchers and archivers to get the dump faster than they can get the compressed version. The number of people who want this can't be > 100, can it? It would need to be metered by an API I guess.
Cheers, Brian On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > I'm not sure I agree with you.. > > > > (3 terabytes / 10 megabytes) seconds in days = 3.64 days > > > > That is, on my university connection I could download the dump in just a > few > > days. The only cost is bandwidth. > > While you might be correct, most connections are reported as megaBITS > per second. For example, AT&T's highest grade of residential DSL > service is 6 Mbps, which would result in 46 day download. Comcast > goes up to 16 Mbps, which is 17 days. > > -Robert Rohde > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- (Not sent from my iPhone) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
