Lea's Three Laws of Downloading

[caddyman]

Good God. It's Wednesday; how did that happen?

Furtle has gone to work leaving me to keep an eye on the Warcrack update she started downloading.

Why is there no equivalent for data downloads of Asimov's three laws of robotics? I suggest Lea's three laws of downloading:

1) All critical downloads will take ten minutes longer than the time available for the download. Unless:
2) If you have an entire day to download fewer than 100 megabytes, the server will hang and will not come online until rule 1) can apply. Unless:
3) If a critical patch takes only the time, or less, to download that is available, it will inevitably be corrupted and require a second attempt, to which rule 1) will apply.

Refinements to these three rules may be made from time to time.

Comments

[furzepig.livejournal.com]

True facts.

What about the downloads that are actually tiny downloads of downloaders, which only then hit proxy/firewall/shoebox and fail. Does that come under the third law?

Had a fair annoying few of those in my time.

[nattydreadi.livejournal.com]

Set 'thing' downloading when you have 30 minutes to go til bed.
Make sure it is running.
Go to bed.
Wake up
View/listen to your special internet preview.

This may not work if you panic about leaving your PC on, however I have surge protectors ...

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, was it a pain? You should have just left it if made you late! I was just hoping to get the worst out of the way :)

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

See, whilst that is faster, I avoid it. Things happen to me, so it is almost always best if I don't fanny around with the folders :D I am ok with add-ons, but thus far I have left everything else firmly shut!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Actually it was OK (as far as I know), if a bit slow. It was done by 8.30.

I was just musing about downloads in general!

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Bugger is there a patch? And there was me hoping to wake myself up with some JC daily action.

[binidj.livejournal.com]

3.2 hits today old boy ... and if you haven't been trickle-downloading the patch then it'll probably take from now until the servers are up (apparently 2pm UK time) to get it all.