Is This a Realistic Claim for the Average User?

Keith Larson

There has been some concerned expressed on the tread announcing the new Greek/Hebrew DVD that too much is being promised. This got me wondering about this claim:

My download and indexing took 50 hours! I realized that my library is very large and that during that first week the Logos servers must have been very busy, but when I use the download calculator at numion.com I discover that download times for the Scholar’s Library at a speed of 2.048 with 0% overhead is 6 hours and 34 minutes. Add in the time of indexing and it would appear no one except those with very fast broadband and CPUs can realistically expect to use their new purchase within a normal workday (8-10 hours).

I am curious. Has anyone who has ordered a larger library, say Scholars or above, been able to use their library within 8-10 hours of ordering it? If so how fast of a broadband connection and CPU do you have?

Rich DeRuiter

I am curious. Has anyone who has ordered a larger library, say Scholars or above, been able to use their library within 8-10 hours of ordering it? If so how fast of a broadband connection and CPU do you have

You're not thinking this means literal 24 hour days, do you? [;)]

Good point, though.

Only a very fast broadband connection along with a very fast computer system could get those results, unless one already had one of the larger base packages installed and indexed (as Logos4.).

On the other hand, some functions of L4 are available before indexing completes, so you could begin using part of L4 in a day--that is, you could open some resources and read, use hyperlinks between resources, take notes, link books together, and a few other things. Searching would be unreliable, and probably most of the guides would not be fully functional (or am I wrong about that).