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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=281434510-02022012>Hello Martin, Sebastien, Stephen,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=281434510-02022012> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=281434510-02022012>is there a wiki page some where that could gather these
'hints and tips on optimising your wget downloads'? Maybe it's a section
in the CMIP5 helpdesk FAQ?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=281434510-02022012></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=281434510-02022012>Should it be made clear that the 'vanilla' wget scripts
from either the Gateway or P2P are general and not 'optimal' for any one
location - and users should tweek them depending on their own
experiences?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=281434510-02022012></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
class=281434510-02022012>Jamie</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left>I also found I
was getting frequent file corruptions on data transfers from Australia – and
have got far better success rate since adding a “--limit-rate=800k” flag to
transfers from China, Japan and Australia (but you may have better network
links to these nodes than us). <o:p></o:p></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I notice that those node seems to be far away from your
home location.<BR>May I suggest you to give those options to wget ; from our
experiences with synchro-data they appear to improve substantially the success
rate :<BR>wget --timeout=20 --tries=10<o:p></o:p></P>
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