Just another confirmation. I have a T1 line here and it took about 25 minutes to download larry's description of how to get up and running with podcasting. Neal -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Carter Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 1:32 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: To Larry: Podcast very slow downloads Hi, I had the same experience with the blind cool tech podcasts today. They downloaded extremely slowly and one of them even aborted before the download finished. There must be a server problem. Robert Carter At 10:14 AM 6/20/2005, you wrote: >I have DSL here. 3.0 mbps. Other podcasts I received download at a very >high bit rate but your podcasts are downloaded at a very slow rate. For >example today each podcast download averages around 10 kbps. This >doesn't make any sense. I can understand if there are many subscribers >to your podcasts could be downloading the shows at the same time and >the server is busy. Your other podcasts that I downloaded in the past >showed the same slow downlad rate. I use iPodder podcatch receiver here >from sourceforge.net. > >It would be better for me to go to your web page containing your >podcasts and do a save target as to downlad the shows 1 at a time. The >donloae will probably be the same slow rate for sure. > >Just wanted to let you know this. Thank you for ding the podcast though >and for helping us all with BP unit. > >Thank you. >Petro