[gui-talk] Still getting (*very* slow downloads from NLS BARD catalogue

[albert griffith]

Since reasonable speeds can be achieved from other computers I doubt there's
anything that can be done about your problem in the short run.  

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 12:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still getting (*very* slow downloads from NLS BARD
catalogue

Dave,

thanks. I did just that, a few days ago, and a man named Neil wrote back and

said he believed me, but that maybe my download speed wouldn't be improved 
unless the NLS were to create a mirror site on a server on the West Coast. I

asked if Freedom Scientific and other places I download files from many 
times faster have mirror sites like this, but he didn't say. Didn't "speak 
to that," as they like to say these days. He only said that the NLS didn't 
have the funding to do something like that. I was as baffled as ever, but it

was all friendly.

I also spoke to one of the reader advisors at the Braille Institute Library 
here, and he says that when he downloads a file from the BARD site using his

computer at work (which is just  a couple of miles down the street from me),

he gets similarly slow speeds. But when he does the download from his home 
computer, and he lives here in the city, too, so it's not as if he goes home

to Washington D.C. after work, he gets a much speedier download, more 
normal.

So now we're both just shrugging our shoulders. I'll check with my ISP's 
tech support staff, just to see if they can offer any helpful perspective, 
But ultimately I think the download deal is just a slow dud for me and I'll 
have to accept it with a sense of humor. After all, even if I have to wait 
three hours for a book to download, it's free and my computer's not crippled

while the down in progress, so what the heck. Pretty strange, though.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still getting (*very* slow downloads from NLS BARD 
catalogue


You should report your findings to NLSDownload at loc.gov



Dave

At 08:40 PM 6/30/2009, you wrote:
>I'm downloading a book right now and just want to report that I'm getting a
>download speed of not quite 20 KB/sec. Now, before someone suggests that
>there's something the matter with my system's performance, my ISP, or
>whatever, I would like to say again that even though I don't have a killer
>fast connection, lately a typical download speed for me at several 
>different
>Web sites has been around 75 KB/sec. Even something a good bit slower than
>that wouldn't distress me. But never have I gotten such slow download 
>speeds
>as I have for three books now, on three different days at different times 
>of
>day, downloading from the BARD catalogue.
>
>I'm not looking for an answer or a fix, because last time everyone said 
>both
>that they don't have such bad speeds and also that maybe it has something 
>to
>do with Federal servers or what part of the country I live in or something,
>all of which sounded awfully vague to me. So this time, I'm just saying 
>it's
>happening again, and my downloading performance has been multiples faster
>all over the place. I think there's something pretty screwed up at this NLS
>site, is all I want to say this time. And of course I appreciate their
>wonderful service and everything. So I'm not bum-rapping the national
>Library Service or anything like that.
>
>
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