On 2 July 2012 05:41, Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > 120701 Philip Webb wrote: >> Well, the simpler alternative in my case wb to use the UoT service. >> I can 'ssh' into a CLI on the CHASS machine, which runs Irix, >> then use 'wget' from there with a very fast connection. >> Downloading a file from there to here would remain fairly slow, >> but it wouldn't be subject to any throttling or slicing. > > I just did just that. CHASS has a 5 Gb/s Internet connection, > so the whole file ( 25 MB ) arrived before the boom fell after c 39 s . > They don't have Wget (!), but Lynx does the job equally well. > Then I used Fuse to mount the remote dir locally > & downloaded the file to my machine at c 75 KB/s in c 5 min ; > I could have used Krusader instead & got a pretty progress box.
Look at this: $ wget --no-check-certificate -c http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/keislercalc-2-12.pdf --2012-07-02 11:17:01-- http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/keislercalc-2-12.pdf Resolving www.math.wisc.edu... 144.92.166.196 Connecting to www.math.wisc.edu|144.92.166.196|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://www.math.wisc.edu/formMail/throttle.php?URL=/~keisler/keislercalc-2-12.pdf [following] --2012-07-02 11:17:01-- https://www.math.wisc.edu/formMail/throttle.php?URL=/~keisler/keislercalc-2-12.pdf Connecting to www.math.wisc.edu|144.92.166.196|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 24184097 (23M) [application/pdf] Saving to: `keislercalc-2-12.pdf' 100%[=====================================>] 24,184,097 130K/s in 2m 50s 2012-07-02 11:19:52 (139 KB/s) - `keislercalc-2-12.pdf' saved [24184097/24184097] I managed to download it using a slow connection over 2m 50s, while the connection was completely uninterrupted. So the 38s threshold does not seem true, unless ... I downloaded this behind a corporate gateway, so I don't know if the slowness of the connection is only up to my gateway, rather than between the gateway and the Uni server. If you prefer to use a proxy anyway, you could set up a SOCKS 5 proxy connection via ssh to the proxy server in question like so: ssh -ND 12500 user@proxy_server (you don't have to use port 12500, this is just an example) then either set up the SOCKS 5 proxy in a browser/ftp client and use that, or use proxychains. Running: proxychains kdeinit4 should allow you to run Krusader to download the file without even having to restart the Krusader application or set up its proxy configuration. -- Regards, Mick
