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

[David Andrews]

Joel:

Neil does know what he is talking about -- he is basically behind the 
download project.  I have come to believe that there is some sort of 
intermittent bottleneck in the Washington D.C. area, so resolving it 
is going to be tough.

Dave

At 11:04 PM 7/3/2009, you wrote:
>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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