allow more downloads

[pcav]

I often have several people from the same class downloading the osgeo4w packages. Apparently if > than, say, 4 people are downloading simultaneously, the 5th gets an error.

[warmerdam]

We have the maximum number of connections from a single IP set fairly low to reduce the pain we were feeling from out of control download accelerators.

I would suggest you use a local package cache on a shared network drive to avoid refetching the files individually for each student machine. This can be accomplished by going through advanced install and setting the path to a directory on the network drive in response to the prompt for "Local Package Directory".

It might be helpful if one client / student pre-fills this cache by installing all likely packages of interest. I'm not positive that collision detection is good when several people request a missing package at the same time.

If that doesn't cut it, I can raise the limit on just this are of download.osgeo.org. We have done this in the past for the geotools maven respository.

[crschmidt]

In the not-too-far-future, I expect we're going to need to set up download.osgeo.org on a different machien with a more modern apache, to support file sizes over 2GB. When we do so, we should re-examine this concern and see if it makes sense to change the configuration.

[TemptorSent]

This bug is related to bug #216 which requested the limiting of bandwidth accelerators. In view of current browsers and download managers, this restriction no longer makes sense and an alternate means of preventing abuse (connection rate limiting at the network level rather than limiting total number of connections perhaps) should be implemented instead.

[robe]

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