Author: Paul
Date: 06:21:56 03/24/01
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On March 24, 2001 at 04:36:34, Chessfun wrote: >On March 24, 2001 at 04:24:49, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>>>>As an idea of time, I downloaded all 5 men tablebases from >>>>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/five/ on a cable >>>>>modem it took about 8 hours. >>>>> >>>>>Sarah. >>>> >>>> >>>>Sarah how large was the download ? >>>>thanks >>>>Wayne >>> >>>I'm not certain as I never tracked the size. And all my tablebase >>>files are in the same directory 3, 4, and 5 men. But I would guess >>>the 5 men were 8 GB. >>> >>>Sarah. >> >>Sarah, how did you have such a sustained troughput: your figures suggest you had >>a bandwidth of ~300 KBytes/second for 8 hours continuosly. >>From Australia to US? I work for Teleco and I'm happy to have 30K sustanined til >>US. >> >>Are you sure that the 8 GB are not the figures of the uncompressed version of >>the files? >> >>ciao >>Franz > >Hi Franz, > I was only guessing as to the size of the tablebases. >I'm sure Dr. Hyatt could state exactly what the total size of >all the 5 men bases is. Taking a better look at the size of >my harddrive and what else is on it maybe 6 GB is a better guess. > >I did do one otherthing. I just now starting downloading a 6 man file >as it was the only way I could think of to check the speeds and the >download file speed is 122/kb sec. > >Sarah. Hi ... You can easily see the size of a directory by right-clicking on a folder in windows and choosing properties ... or take the equivalent keyboard route and press "Alt Enter". Mine says all 3+4+5 men tb's total 7.05 GB ... It took me quite some time to download them all at ~55kB/s using ADSL :) Groetjes, Paul
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