Hi Larry,
Well, I tried downloading it through the web interface and got a corrupted file as well. Then I simply copied the file using Windows Explorer and it worked. I guess it's not ready for prime time. Let me talk to Chad and see if he has any suggestions. I guess Apache is one thing we could try. That's the only thing I can think of. I'll let you know what he says.
Brent
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Brent,
The Adobe AR7 I downloaded was corrupt. Today I tried again. I first tried using wget like I do online. That did not work. Maybe if this was an Apache server it would work? I did get 11 MB of something. I tried again using the regular download routine, but again the final file has a checksum error and will not execute. (Either that or it did execute in which case who knows what I just loaded onto my machine?) At least I was a limited user at the time. I forgot that I might need to be an administrator to load the program.
I think we need something that handles errors a bit better. We need to get a little more experience before going primetime.
I just checked the two downloads against each other. They are not the same. One is 18.20 MB and the other 17.99 MB. Neither would execute. Obviously the MD5 and SHA-1 checks are different (I used FolderMatch to do the comparison). Both appeared to download completely.
Larry
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Yeah, I know what you mean. I wonder if there is a setting somewhere that controls the speed. Maybe in IIS. It's still way faster than the VSAT.
I've had some problems uploading large files to it. I could not upload MSN Messenger 7.5 to it last night from home. It just kept dying after a few minutes. I finally connected to the machine using Windows Explorer and just copied the file to its hard drive. Then I VNC'd in, opened the web page for the file vault via VNC, and uploaded the file directly from the hard drive. It worked fine. Not sure what is going on there. A bit inconvenient if you ask me. From our office it seems to work better, but not perfect.
I still think it is a good idea to populate it with current software and have everyone using it.
Brent
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Brent,
I uploaded Audacity to the server. I also downloaded Adobe AR7. I am surprised at how slow the download is. It runs at about 1/10 what I expected. It took a couple minutes to download 17 MB (AR7). A friend in Phoenix has a 1 gig connection which would run about 1 MB per second. This link is running at 1/10 MB per second.
Larry