Hi folks, This morning I received email from a fellow at the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility. He was having trouble downloading the monstrously huge Windows installer file from Matt's web site. He was a little vague about what the problem was, but I suspect that it is a combination of limited international bandwidth, distance, file size, and http connections timing out. It occurs to me that it would be useful to have mirrors on other continents. These could be entire site mirrors of the Ifeffit, Atoms/Athena/Artemis, and/or SixPack pages or they could just be mirrored copies of the most important files. In any case, mirrors might help those with limits to their bandwidth by giving them geographically closer options for downloading the big files. So, if anyone out there has been loving Ifeffit, isn't a programmer, but still has been wondering how to give something back to the Ifeffit community, establishing mirrors outside of North America would be a great contribution. B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- ravel@phys.washington.edu Code 6134, Building 3, Room 222 Naval Research Laboratory phone: (1) 202 767 5947 Washington DC 20375, USA fax: (1) 202 767 1697 NRL Synchrotron Radiation Consortium (NRL-SRC) Beamlines X11a, X11b, X23b, X24c, U4b National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 My homepage: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://feff.phys.washington.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/