Hey Nick, Thanks. I will forward your contact information to the Digi-Key folks and we can go from there. Given KiCad downloads are not getting any smaller so any increase in bandwidth would be a good thing.
Cheers, Wayne On 2/6/2019 6:16 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote: > Hi Wayne, > > Thank your for the heads up and Digi-Key for the willingness. > > For the moment I don't think it will be needed as such. We moved to an > S3 bucket thing with he CERN services, I am not sure how it scales with > multiple downloads and how well it works on locations remote from > Europe, time will tell. You could try to test it as well. See [1]. It > could be a way to optimize later on. > > I have not really tried to test multiple downloads from it > systematically, but my understanding is that it should perform fairly > well in comparison to the old downloads server. We also have the > futureware mirror at [2], although it has not been migrated completely. > I think the usual download speed if you are on a good connection > yourself will be around 40 to 50 MB/s or so. I think that is ok. > > They should be free to ping me directly, I will probably CC you, some > CERN folks and some other trustees as I see fit. > > Regards > Nick Østergaard > > [1] https://kicad-downloads.s3.cern.ch/index.html > [2] http://www2.futureware.at/~nickoe/kicad-downloads-mirror/ > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 21:53, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > This is primarily a question for the folks setting up and maintaining > our download server but it does effect everyone who downloads KiCad > packages. Digi-Key has offer to provide a download mirror for us if we > are interested. I think the extra download bandwidth would be a good > thing given the size of our downloads but I wanted to make sure it > doesn't cause any issues with CERN or our server maintainers. If > everyone is OK with it, I will contact Digi-Key and get the relevant > parties involved. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
