[Theforum] BEO again
Ron Dorman
rwd at csi1st.net
Fri May 24 12:24:26 CDT 2002
aardvark wrote:
> > From: Ron Dorman <rwd at csi1st.net>
> >
> > > Not sure if this will help or not but for April:
> > >
> > > http://members.evolt.org/dmah/browsers_by_download.html
> > > http://members.evolt.org/dmah/browsers_by_name.html
> >
> > Yes, thanks. Now we just need to find which of the big downloads are
> > still available from MS and NetScape. Could save some data transfer
> > cost.
>
> it could, yes, and i think that's a great idea...
>
> however, one of the most requested archives has been IE4, and the
> d/l stats bear that out... MS doesn't offer IE4, or 5 even, on their
> site, so you're stuck hunting for it...
I was afraid MS didn't offer them any longer. Any archives available by MS
that would make them available?
> other browsers up there, however, most notably all NN and N
> archives, could be pointed back to the netscape site...
>
> IE's the bear, though, one that people can't really get elsewhere...
>
> i know you said throttling doesn't do much, but if we limit
> simultaneous connections to those directories (can you limit to
> that level of granularity?), we could cut down the number of d/ls per
> day, and ideally, the bandwidth associated with it would be cut...
It probably would reduce the d/l's for that day, but the requester will
probably come back the next day and you use the bandwidth. You may spread
it out a few days but eventually it gets used if we're the only place to
get the browser.
Ron D.
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