Bob's in-car films from mt washington

[Bob]

Wow, thats pretty cool.. thanks Brett!!!  Sorry about the slow download, its a cheesy DSL
line at the house.

Bob

Brett Dikeman wrote:

> Bob posted a BIG(182-ish mb) file of one of his runs up the mountain,
> very cool.
>
> However, it's a slow download from his site(several hours) so I'm putting
> it on my server as well.
>
> Here's the cool part: it's Swarmcast enabled.  Which means that when you
> click on the link, the swarmcast java program will be launched, and other
> users, who are also downloading/have downloaded the file, will feed you
> the file.  After you've pulled the file down, the swarmcast app will
> continue to run until you've contributed back a little; they call it
> "karma".  It works quite well and will saturate a cablemodem or DSL line
> pretty well if you've got a couple people who are kind enough to let
> swarmcast stay open.  There's the option to let swarmcast close when
> you've "repaid your karma" or you could just leave it open if you want to
> be kind and help out(cablemodem/dsl line users, try to do this!)
>
> The URL for Bob's in-car-video is:
>
> http://www.swarmcast.com/gate/?url=http://www.200q20v.com/~brett/bob_incar_mtwash.mpg
>
> Please do NOT be tempted to monkey with the URL above(ie, just using my
> server directly.)  That defeats the purpose of swarmcast, and the
> bandwidth sucking will annoy me and I'll just remove the file.
>
>  No matter what your connection, you will help others by leaving the
> swarmcast java app up for a bit after your D/L finishes.  If you've got
> unlimited internet and it's a local call, hey, why not?  It took me almost
> 3 hours to grab the file, because I was only getting 10kb/sec from Bob's
> server, a fraction of my line's available bandwidth.
>
> In the coming days, look to see a swarmcast enabled album download, if
> this works well...wouldn't that be fun?
>
> Brett
> PS:if you have the latest album, drop me a line...