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ftp.agilent.com tar-file on archive.org

 

The Internet Archive has what appears to be a snapshot of ftp.agilent.com from 2014. Link is .
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The file is rather large (317GB) and an attempt to download failed after approximately 220GB. I don't want to blow my monthly data plan and thus decided to wait a little before attempting it again.
The Internet Archive allows the download of individual files from the tar-ball, but I'd rather have a replica of the whole site to browse and explore locally.
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Has anyone successfully downloaded this tar file? Don't want to waste time and bandwidth if the file is known to have issues.
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Thank you,
Wolfgang
KI7PFX
 

I download the whole archive a few years ago. I also had issues with the download at that time but it was easy to resume the download because I started it using "wget".

If you don't have a Linux box you can use the wget for Windows in a Command Prompt window.

You can download from here the latest wget binary for Windows.



Use the following command:

wget -c

Best regards,
Razvan

On 15/05/2025 19:25, Wolfgang Schraml via groups.io wrote:
The Internet Archive has what appears to be a snapshot of ftp.agilent.com from 2014. Link is ftp.agilent.com <>.
The file is rather large (317GB) and an attempt to download failed after approximately 220GB. I don't want to blow my monthly data plan and thus decided to wait a little before attempting it again.
The Internet Archive allows the download of individual files from the tar-ball, but I'd rather have a replica of the whole site to browse and explore locally.
Has anyone successfully downloaded this tar file? Don't want to waste time and bandwidth if the file is known to have issues.
Thank you,
Wolfgang
KI7PFX
 

Thanks for this. There's lots of useful stuff there.
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Does anyone have a link to an older archive of the Agilent website that might still have the N7810A calibration SW for the old E4440A spectrum analyser? I'm thinking in terms of the Win 98SE through to XP era. I managed to find lots of N78xx SW for other items of test gear on the Wayback Machine from this era but not the N7810A SW as the Wayback Machine didn't store this for some reason.
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I know there are newer versions of N7810A available from Keysight but I wanted the older version from the Win XP era.
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Regards
Jeremy
 

Hi Jeremy,

I am also looking for the N78xx software but from what I know all versions need a license. Or this not valid for the older versions and only new ones need the license?

Regards,
Razvan

On 15/05/2025 20:23, jmr via groups.io wrote:
Thanks for this. There's lots of useful stuff there.
Does anyone have a link to an older archive of the Agilent website that might still have the N7810A calibration SW for the old E4440A spectrum analyser? I'm thinking in terms of the Win 98SE through to XP era. I managed to find lots of N78xx SW for other items of test gear on the Wayback Machine from this era but not the N7810A SW as the Wayback Machine didn't store this for some reason.
I know there are newer versions of N7810A available from Keysight but I wanted the older version from the Win XP era.
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Regards
Jeremy
 

I'm not sure, but the older versions are much smaller in size at maybe 100Mb.
On the wayback machine, all the older 78xxA downloads show up as access forbidden.
It is still possible to get the main 7800A SW but all the instrument specific programs (eg for PSA, ESA, PSG etc) report as access forbidden.
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I'm not sure what this means. I know that it wasn't always like this, because I can remember downloading some of them maybe 7 years back on the wayback machine and I was pleased that this was possible. However, when I look at the same archive today (same archive date) they are all causing an access forbidden message. None of them can be downloaded today so something has changed.
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Regards
Jeremy
 

Thanks. I'll give that a try.
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Wolfgang
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On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 01:05 PM, Razvan Popescu wrote:

I download the whole archive a few years ago. I also had issues with the
download at that time but it was easy to resume the download because I
started it using "wget".

If you don't have a Linux box you can use the wget for Windows in a
Command Prompt window.

You can download from here the latest wget binary for Windows.



Use the following command:

wget -c


Best regards,
Razvan

On 15/05/2025 19:25, Wolfgang Schraml via groups.io wrote:
The Internet Archive has what appears to be a snapshot of
ftp.agilent.com from 2014. Link is
ftp.agilent.com <>.
The file is rather large (317GB) and an attempt to download failed after
approximately 220GB. I don't want to blow my monthly data plan and thus
decided to wait a little before attempting it again.
The Internet Archive allows the download of individual files from the
tar-ball, but I'd rather have a replica of the whole site to browse and
explore locally.
Has anyone successfully downloaded this tar file? Don't want to waste
time and bandwidth if the file is known to have issues.
Thank you,
Wolfgang
KI7PFX
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On Thu, 15 May 2025, Wolfgang Schraml via groups.io wrote:

I've just downloaded the entire thing. No problems encountered.

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

Wolfgang

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On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 01:05 PM, Razvan Popescu wrote:


I download the whole archive a few years ago. I also had issues with the
download at that time but it was easy to resume the download because I
started it using "wget".

If you don't have a Linux box you can use the wget for Windows in a
Command Prompt window.

You can download from here the latest wget binary for Windows.



Use the following command:

wget -c


Best regards,
Razvan

On 15/05/2025 19:25, Wolfgang Schraml via groups.io wrote:

The Internet Archive has what appears to be a snapshot of
ftp.agilent.com from 2014. Link is
ftp.agilent.com < >.
The file is rather large (317GB) and an attempt to download failed after
approximately 220GB. I don't want to blow my monthly data plan and thus
decided to wait a little before attempting it again.
The Internet Archive allows the download of individual files from the
tar-ball, but I'd rather have a replica of the whole site to browse and
explore locally.
Has anyone successfully downloaded this tar file? Don't want to waste
time and bandwidth if the file is known to have issues.
Thank you,
Wolfgang
KI7PFX
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