On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Michael Chapman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suspect that this was well considered when Ambisonia was > moved to York, but I'll ask anyway : > > Does York have sufficient bandwidth (and > is it willing to allow its use) for Ambisonia > downloads to be just that : i.e. file > downloads direct* from the server ? > > If not, I'll get the cold towels out, wrap my head and > try and get BitTorrent going again (it worked fine on my > _previous_ system ;-(> > > Michael > > > *Another question has to be : how much difference BitTorrent > actually makes in bandwidth used : I got the impression that > Etienne had enormous bandwidth problems with the original > server ... possibly implying that BitTorrent was not relieving > that much of the pressure (?). > for me, it was partly the bandwidth (I had a tiny connection, back in 2007), but mostly the effort involved in maintaining the site. Oli is now doing the server maintenance and Marc is doing the web-app maintenance. I cant speak for York's bandwidth in terms of hosting the files directly ... but there would be effort involved in exposing the files for direct download (that's a question for Oli and Marc) Etienne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120612/b484e631/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
