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

[Joel Deutsch]

dave,
Point taken. I'm not hysterically urdgent over it. I appreciate the service 
and the free books, as always. I'll hope for faster performrnnace in the 
future, but three hours is a lot faster than a week or two for getting a 
cassette in snail mail. So I'm cool with the whole thing. Just thought it 
might be intelligent to at least inquire about it from the right people. 
having done so, I'll just carry on and not expect anything very snazzy in 
terms of speed, and just say to myself, oh, well.

Thanks as always.
to the inquir----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Still getting (*very* slow downloads from NLS BARD 
catalogue


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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