for videos, could I suggest something like vimeo.com.  You won't need to 
serve the ftp requests and the video will be compressed (by vimeo) so 
will download quicker.

Just a thought.

Ian

Geoffrey wrote:
> MORTON SALT DISSOLVED IN TAPWATER.
> Thermal mass for thermal momentum.
> RFI absorber hopefully.
> If the human body is resistant to RFI
> then so should salt water be. I think ???
> You got to make all the various changes be
> as common mode as possible to everything
> at the same time or it shows as unwanted noise.
> Even common mode can if its big enough.
>
> Common mode is like you shake the whole person
> instead of only their hand.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "sismos" 
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 3:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Downloades from the ftp server I created for PSN folks
>
>
>> Hi Geoff,
>>
>> I downloaded the AVI file just minutes after you posted the link.  I
>> live in Panama.  It only took a few minutes, quite fast actually.
>>
>> I have to admit that the video was strange and looked more like a home
>> canning operation than a seismic station. I say this kindly because my
>> station look more like rats nests than seismic stations. What is in all
>> the jars?
>>
>> I really like reading your post.
>>
>> Saludos,
>>
>> Angel
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 14:01 -0700, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> Hello PSN;
>>>
>>> I would like to let you know that everything within the scratch folder
>>> is OK for you to download.
>>>
>>> I have been watching the last several hours the progress
>>> of several downloads and come to the conclusion
>>> there is some kind of interference with connections
>>> that cross the USA border.
>>>
>>> It may not be possible for Non-USA people to
>>> download these files in a timely fashion.
>>>
>>> But do not let you stop trying because like
>>> always I could be wrong.
>>>
>>> I will post just about everything related to
>>> PSN or Seismology that I do here and it is not
>>> intended for the general public but only
>>> PSN peoples who I believe are truly
>>> interested in seismology/geophysics/programming/instrumentation.
>>>
>>> I will not be up 100% of the time.
>>>
>>> Most likely Randomly between 24:00 and 12:00 UTC
>>> when the net is least used here.
>>>  
>>> FTP SERVER IP: 173.016.082.025  ( NOT STATIC can change periodically 
>>> by the ISP )
>>> FTP       UID: PSN
>>> FTP      PASS: PSN123
>>> FTP     PORTS: 1024 to 65535 are open with passive ftp enabled.
>>> FTP   CHANNEL: 20/21 I think are standard for FTP
>>>
>>> It is for download only and not intended
>>> to let people do P2P ( peer to peer ) stuff.
>>>
>>> Don't laugh too hard since this how I have chosen to waste my life.
>>>
>>> You guys are much more serious armatures than myself.
>>>
>>> Be happy if you get better than 60KB/SEC downloads
>>> because EUROPE was getting like 1K or less for reasons
>>> not fully understood.
>>> The limits are not my machine since everything
>>> on the B drive is ramdisk ( very fast ).
>>> The connection is A Gbit modem.
>>> The limits has to be ISP or Backbone related.
>>>
>>> Its all just to show you what I do here at GVA the best I can.
>>>
>>> Question;
>>> Not sure what official armature group [GVA] is a part of
>>> to put into the PSN4 file header, possibly
>>> someone can tell me in a personal email.
>>> I will change the header from "123456" to reflect this.
>>>
>>> A USGS expert person named Bruce Presgrave assigned me this 
>>> designation.
>>> But all I know is [GVA] and not any parent organization.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> geoff
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