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Poster: adawg Date: Apr 1, 2004 7:23am
Forum: etree Subject: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

It's Dave Matthews all over again. There are so many other sites to get Dead shows, it's a shame that now it's a drag to listen to other lesser well known artists. I thought that was the whole idea behind this site. I personally would rather the Dead weren't posted here. I guess all good things don't last forever. Speeds are a third of what they used to be( 50 kbps instead of 150).
This post was modified by adawg on 2004-04-01 15:19:44
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Poster: Erich Date: Apr 1, 2004 5:56pm
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

It's Dave Matthews all over again.

... only that when DMB was taken off the archive, speeds didnt go back up.

There are so many other sites to get Dead shows, it's a shame that now it's a drag to listen to other lesser well known artists. I thought that was the whole idea behind this site.

the whole idea behind this site was to archive live performances of bands that allow it, not to foster soley to lesser known bands.

I personally would rather the Dead weren't posted here. I guess all good things don't last forever. Speeds are a third of what they used to be( 50 kbps instead of 150).

You know, maybe its just me, but waiting a few extra hours for a FREE show just doesnt seem like the type of thing I can imagine any normal person complaining about. Maybe we should all go back to trading cassette tapes, or better yet waiting a few months for a good old fashioned vinyl bootleg to show up overpriced at your local mom and pop record shop.

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Poster: ratsnest74 Date: Apr 2, 2004 12:46am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

My download speeds used to be 300 kb/s, now im getting about 26kb/s...therefore im getting downloads about 10% the speed i did just two weeks ago, what used to take an hour for an entire show now take all day (or night). Hopefully this can be corrected in the near future. Having said that, im still glad the greatful dead is here!!! Brad
This post was modified by ratsnest74 on 2004-04-02 08:46:58

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Poster: Allen Gaitor Date: Apr 1, 2004 8:46pm
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

I've had download speeds drop by more that half since last weekend, although on one occasion (presumably when few people were hitting it)speeds were only down about 25%. The impact will definitely accumulate, especially as more and more GD shows are added.

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Poster: Weener Date: Apr 1, 2004 9:41pm
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

I have noticed a small decreases in speeds, but I figure a lot of the bands on the archive deserve and some may achieve as much attention as the Grateful Dead gets, and as I tell every person I know about the archive, eventually bandwidth is going to be used up. This site is an amazing public service and instead of figuring out ways to limit it to keep our speeds fast, we should be finding ways to expand the archive selection while also increasing bandwidth when it becomes a problem. Now I know that expanding bandwidth costs money, but I am positive that the users of the live music archive could easily justify to themselves a small donation to keep the archive healthy. I spend lots of money on cd's, and having the ability to listen extensively to lesser known and the more mainstream bands is something I refuse to take for granted.

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Poster: NiKnight3 Date: Apr 3, 2004 2:11am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

Not to mention that people coming to see GD will be able to browse through for other shows, increasing exposure and being a good thing for just about everyone.

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Poster: Allen Gaitor Date: Apr 1, 2004 10:53pm
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

After posting my last message, I was able to download at very good speeds. So please forget what I said in my earlier message. Overall, it is best to share the wealth and not try to limit access. That is done on most servers, and it ends up like a club. The openness of the Archive is a high value and worth preserving.

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Poster: simon c Date: Apr 1, 2004 7:27am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

FWIW, I'm still getting about 175k (kilobytes) per second on my DSL connection, even right this second - I also tried downloading a Grateful Dead show in particular, and saw the same results - no noticable drop in download speeds.

However, it's definitely true that bandwidth usage has spiked recently, and the Archive is using its maximum bandwidth allocation for most of the day. I'm unclear why I'm not seeing any decrease in download swiftness. What do other people see from their home connections?

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Poster: Brad Leblanc 2 Date: Apr 1, 2004 9:40am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

I just got 185KB/sec on my last track. Sorry adawg, guess your ISP is capping you. Keep the Dead coming!!! -Brad
This post was modified by bleblanc on 2004-04-01 17:40:16

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Poster: brewster Date: Apr 1, 2004 4:18pm
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

I get about 70KB/sec, but that is all I ever get. Yes, it is confusing that we are at our max cap, but an informal poll of archive folks they are getting up in the 100KB/sec range which is quite good.

We are interested in other evidence of performance. We are not at our max cap from 2AM to 8AM california time, so if you compare in that zone to not-in-that-zone, then we will know if our cap has anything to do with it.

does anyone know of any free service that tests this download speeds from multiple places over time?

-brewster

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Poster: Jonathan Aizen Date: Apr 2, 2004 12:59am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: Bummer! Grateful Dead drags down download speeds

We were starting to max out our bandwidth before the Dead came along, so it isn't related to them. It actually started when we added the feature films section.