Thankfully I can do all the downloading I want from 3 am to 6 am during the free zone.
http://xowa.org/index.html is what I plan to use to download the entire Wikipedia.
The small version of the Wikipedia is 2 GB and the complete version is 100 GB.
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The grand daddy of the entire Wikipedia is over 100 GB. I'm going to see if I can download it in increments over the next few days. Unfortunately, the XOWA application doesn't have a scheduler built in. Fortunately it does have the ability to be paused.
Its going to be a little bit of a pain to set an alarm for 3 am, but this will be an interesting experiment to see how much data can be downloaded during the late night free zone.
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Tonight I am copying the files to my 4 TB hard drive, and when I get around to it, I will start unzipping the contents. I'm curious to see how much data this is when its all unzipped.
As of right now, I've used 268 GB for the month, on a Liberty 12 plan. So far I've only used 8.7 GB of my 12 GB priority data. My plan restarts on April 4th.
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I am a little unsure why you would download Wikipedia, which isn't exactly the most reliable source of information on the internet. Then again, probably more reliable than the New York Times.
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You can never have to much reference material for survival.
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I guess I'll find out in the morning if this worked or not.
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My local copy of the Wikipedia is working great and I plan to update it once a year. Its a huge download, but should the antennas stop working on Viasat 1, I will still have a localized copy of the "internet" including all of the Wikipedia .
In addition to the Wikipedia, I have over 1,500 videos stored on my Plex server.
That is a grand total of 1.61 TB of content being stored on my external 4 TB hard drive. I'm a happy camper and I'm ready for the zombie apocalypse.
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