@djsundog @ajroach42 Interestingly, Sergey just (literally within the past few days) added "multicast" support to #NNCP http://www.nncpgo.org/Multicast.html . The Internet-connected machine could send the downloaded site to the LAN "area". Upon arriving at the LAN NNCP gateway, it would be copied both to the PC and to the indexer. Wouldn't require any extra scarce bandwidth, and also wouldn't require the indexer to be up in order for the data to reach the PC.
@djsundog @ajroach42 NNCP 7.x is still a bit buggy for me (I make pretty heavy use of it, sending thousands of packets, some of them hundreds of GB in size, across it daily) but I'm sure it will shake out shortly. In the meantime, 6.6.0 is rock solid