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Stoked to help with this. Will put my new BT fibre to the test.

Bandwidth in itself is not per say needed, in this project. IP's however are very useful.

Feel free to stop by our project IRC channel at #preposterus (Note: It's not spelled pre-posterous) or our main channel at #archiveteam on EFNet

"Bandwidth in itself is not per say needed"

I guess so; I have a 200Mbit fiber connection but surprisingly little is happening.

I started the instance 10 minutes a go and it has only uploaded 20MB. I've set 'concurrent items' and 'rsync threads' to the max.

We're rate limiting how many items/users gets handed out. Because Posterous is very fragile, and we're blowing away their front end caches - which they rely on heavily.

Because of this, we practically hit the back end every time (as well as other users of Posterous, because we blow the cache away) - which makes Posterous very slow.

We've ran a few hundered more threads earlier, successfully making Posterous completely unavailable unfortunally.

BT fibre sounds pretty sweet :) I'll throw in my crummy broadband as well ;)

That 'crummy broadband' is very much welcome, and so are you.

In this effort, bandwidth in itself is not that important. Feel free to read some of my other posts in this thread regarding bandwidth and/or come join us at IRC (#preposterus at EFNet)

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