Solaris download size!

Sirpingalot · 28-04-2007, 10:01

I'm considering downloading the Solaris 10 operating system, but the size is almost 2GB and I don't want to put myself at risk of being throttled. I was looking to start downloading now...is this ok, or is it possible that I would be put on a black list?

I'm seriously paranoid about downloading large files - even though lots of people have explained that it'll be fine with vm.

awibble · 28-04-2007, 10:04

2GB is nothing it the grand scheme of things. Its not against the Terms, i would download it...

If your really worried, why not ask virgin to mirror it

http://mirrors.virginmedia.com/help.php

Then they carn't complain at all.

Sirpingalot · 28-04-2007, 10:11

Thanks, how does the mirror thing work? I'm confused :s

awibble · 28-04-2007, 10:14

Basically, Virgin downloads it, and hosts it on their network. Because they own the network, it doesnt cost them anything for you to download it from inside their network. This means that they save money and thus dont mind you download lots from their mirrors. The other reason is that inside the network, you can get much better speeds than outside the network.

They litrally "mirror" whats on the solaris server, like a copy

Sirpingalot · 28-04-2007, 10:19

Ah, nice. Thanks for your help!

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Out of interest, how long will it be before I can get it off their mirror? Have you got the name of the mirror site? Cheers

awibble · 28-04-2007, 10:22

it depends how slow they are... they might decide not to mirror it, and they might take 3 months to mirror it.

Personally, i would just download it.

Sirpingalot · 28-04-2007, 10:26

I've sent them the email, but I think I'm just going to download it. Thanks for your help

crowlord · 28-04-2007, 10:36

You needn't worry about 2Gb. You could DL 2Gb a day and not raise an eyebrow in my experience.

Sirpingalot · 28-04-2007, 10:40

Thanks for the reassurance crowlord. I started about 5 minutes ago, the 5 simultaneous downloads running at about 250KB/s each, so I'm getting the full 10 (through orbit)

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One last thing - I've heard people can get letters through the door for heavy usage, is this true? (this is pretty much my first major download)

Paul K · 28-04-2007, 10:51

It's not a big enough download to trigger an automated letter and as a one off it would probably not even raise an eyebrow let alone suspicion.

crowlord · 28-04-2007, 11:14

I have never recieved a letter, I dont know how more heavily i could hammer my connection. I think you need to really extract the urine before the bother with you.

ecksmen · 28-04-2007, 11:48

2gb really isn't much at all, hell you could download that daily and it wouldn't be a problem.....

Druchii · 28-04-2007, 11:52

Did 45Gb in a day not so long back, then i showed you the log... That was bad... And still they didn't care, it was easily over 100Gb that week

Never again

nicke261192 · 28-04-2007, 11:54

You can download Solaris from VM look here

http://sunfreeware.virginmedia.com/

Sirpingalot · 28-04-2007, 12:20

So you did Scott, I remember that now. Thanks for the link nicke, but I've already downloaded it.