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Get faster internet. Take your laptop to a google campus and download on their wifi. Set up a VPS and download and manipulate there. Plenty of solutions.

acdha 6y ago
Those aren’t good solutions, they’re workarounds - and if you think about them even slightly you’ll realize they’re not very good: 1. The interface requiring multiple downloads prevents automation or simply waiting out a large transfer, and not having a robust automated retry mechanism ensures wasted time and increases the odds of data loss. 2. Few people have a high-speed free WiFi network nearby. You’re not getting better results at Starbucks or the local library, and Google’s campus networks require logins even if you are one of the few people who lives near one. 3. Setting up a VPS and running downloads from a web app requires money and skills most people don’t have, especially if you care about not accidentally leaking your personal data. If you have enough data to matter, you’ll also hit many providers quota limits or bandwidth charges. If you navigate all of those challenges, you still haven’t solved the problem of getting it home - at best you can now use rsync to remove the manual component of the second transfer.
ramses0 6y ago
“Take your laptop to a google campus and download on their wifi.” LoL
- sahinabi 6y ago
  i think he's just trolling - can't be that stupid.
  - benlivengood 6y ago
    GoogleGuest is an unsecured SSID at every campus, if you have one nearby. It generally reaches the parking lots (which are conveniently empty right now)
    - ramses0 6y ago
      https://about.google/intl/en_us/locations/ https://about.google/intl/en_us/locations/ ... not as isolated as I thought, waiting patiently for the geo-data people to work out an approximate census of people who live within a 50-mile radius of a google office. :-)

acdha 6y ago

Those aren’t good solutions, they’re workarounds - and if you think about them even slightly you’ll realize they’re not very good: 1. The interface requiring multiple downloads prevents automation or simply waiting out a large transfer, and not having a robust automated retry mechanism ensures wasted time and increases the odds of data loss. 2. Few people have a high-speed free WiFi network nearby. You’re not getting better results at Starbucks or the local library, and Google’s campus networks require logins even if you are one of the few people who lives near one. 3. Setting up a VPS and running downloads from a web app requires money and skills most people don’t have, especially if you care about not accidentally leaking your personal data. If you have enough data to matter, you’ll also hit many providers quota limits or bandwidth charges. If you navigate all of those challenges, you still haven’t solved the problem of getting it home - at best you can now use rsync to remove the manual component of the second transfer.

ramses0 6y ago

“Take your laptop to a google campus and download on their wifi.” LoL

sahinabi 6y ago
i think he's just trolling - can't be that stupid.
- benlivengood 6y ago
  GoogleGuest is an unsecured SSID at every campus, if you have one nearby. It generally reaches the parking lots (which are conveniently empty right now)
  - ramses0 6y ago
    https://about.google/intl/en_us/locations/ https://about.google/intl/en_us/locations/ ... not as isolated as I thought, waiting patiently for the geo-data people to work out an approximate census of people who live within a 50-mile radius of a google office. :-)