Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloading LibreOffice

Hi Dave.  I run the Libreoffice-na.us site.  It is not an "official" 
download path, but a site for a DVD project with it accessible online as 
well as on a physical media.

I found that the problems I had with downloading from LO's site due to a 
problem with the mirror system of downloading.
When you download a file from there, you are actually downloading it 
from one of the many mirrors available.  I would be one, buy my hosting 
company will not allow that to happen.

Sometimes there are problems with the chosen mirror.

If you go to the "info" part of the green "button" to download the file, 
and click there, you will be given a list of mirrors to choose from 
instead of the downloading system to make that choice for you.

So you may be either having an issue with the "default" mirror,
OR
your dial-up company could be "limiting" the size of file being 
downloaded.  I know that some do from experience.

So, here are your option, as I see it.

1)  try one of the mirrors and start the download before you go to bed.  
If it goes, you should have it by morning.

2)  have your son download the install files [install and help] and have 
him send it to you on a CD.

3)  have you son download my DVD and send it to you.
     [version 5 of the 3.5.4 DVD .iso file will be available in a few 
days - version 1 is online but not as good]

4)  I might be able to send you a copy of my DVD via post, but I do not 
know how much the post office charges anymore.

If you want to "talk to me " off the list, you can do so by either my

    webmaster@krackedpress.com [default for the lists]
or
    webmaster@libreoffice-na.us [default for the DVD project]

I help dial-up people locally from time to time.  I am in central New 
York State along the Pennsylvania border.  I still have a laptop or two 
that has a dial-up modem, but most modern ones do not, it seems.  I do 
not have them set up for dial-up anymore, but I have a friend that uses 
a free dial-up service that limits to 10 hours of work per month.  I 
understand that their paid service also has a limiting factor on how 
large of a file you can download.  It is not stated anywhere I have 
seen, but he has seen it happen with others with that service.  If he 
needs to download large, either I do it or he comes to my place to 
access my home/office network's Internet access.  I also share that 
access via a private wireless system with several people in my apartment 
building.  This secured network is part of my own network with a 
separate router for their use and will not access my part of the network 
due to the IP addresses from one network are different from the other 
and you cannot access one part from the other.

So, hopefully it would be the mirror that is chosen for you. Otherwise 
you will need to have someone send you the install files on a CD or a 
DVD if you want more than just the basic installs.

Check out this link to see what my DVD has beyond the basic installs.  
You can find these files other places, but I gathered them into one 
place.  Also I have the largest American English spell checking 
dictionary for LO, or as far as I know and have been told.  There are in 
the dictionary section of the DVD's web site  with "kpp" in the titles.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/index.html

On 06/25/2012 02:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi Dave :)
>
> Errr, that was your 1st post to the list!  I can guess at your original question which appears to 
> have been lost in the ether.
>
> There are a lot of possible different reasons why downloading doesn't work.  The easiest 
> work-around might be to get yoru son to download LibreOffice onto his machine and then make a Cd to 
> post to you as a normal small parcel.  Even better would be if he would download the North American 
> Dvd for you
> http://libreoffice-na.us/
>
> Tim of Kracked Press at the NA project might be able to post a dvd to you but i am not sure how 
> much he would charge.  Hopefully he would at least recoup costs from whatever he charged you!
>
> As for your own downloading problems.  Which Operating System are you using?  Is it an MS Windows 
> one, maybe Xp?  Perhaps not Windows at all, maybe Ubuntu?  Mac?  Something else?
>
> Do you know your hard-drive's size?  More to the point how much empty space is left on the drive at 
> the moment?  It might just be that you need to empty your wastebin and the wastebin in your 
> emailing system.
>
> Don't worry if you don't know answers to some or all of those things but if you do know it might 
> help us to help you
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 25/6/12, Dave Richardson <dave.richardson@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> From: Dave Richardson <dave.richardson@mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Monday, 25 June, 2012, 17:13
>
> Thank you for responding.
> I have a dial-up connection and after 5 or 6 attempts over three days I never got more then 20 mg 
> download when the mindspring shut me down.
> My son says he can download 208 mg into a CD in less then 10 minutes but...
> I am retired now and LibreOffice still lets me play.
> Should I take the computer to Denver and let him try to download into my computer?
> Thanks
> Dave

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