negative1 said:
by the way, i easily max out my download rate from rapidshare..maybe YOUR
account is being limited, ever think of that?or maybe YOU don't know how
to setup your torrent software to get the fastest speeds?
Well if you can't max out your connection on newsgroups then either you haven't set up your client correctly (how many connections did you set it up to access and what client were you using?) or your ISP is throttling your access to usenet. If you had it all set up correctly it should have only have taken about an hour to get the DVD-9 with your speed. But i do know that some ISP's newsgroup access does limit you to only 1 connection which is why its always best to go for a dedicated usenet access provider than rely on your ISPs
negative1 said:
By the way, the downloading stopped, and died out near the end,
so i had to go back and redownload a whole bunch of parts later..
wow, that was fun (sarcasm).
wow a whole 3 days, boy was the quick [sarcasm] (actually it wasn't that
bad)
That does sound like throttling or you have your client setup to only access 1 connection, but even with 1 connection it should never stop and you should have good speeds. plus your client should have a resume feature so you wouldn't have had to re download the whole files again and even if there were incomplete files the par2 files are there to fix them. it would have started right from where it left off. that has never happened to me before. Sure you get slowdowns but that is only due to your connection but 3 days to get a DVD-9 on a 20mbit connection?
negative1 said:
look, i don't have time to fake these pictures, and sit here debating
with a bunch of you impatient people....fine, your so leet you can
get it in 1hour!!!! good for you!!!!!! i'm happy.....but are you sharing
it out?????? THATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TORRENTS AND
NEWSGROUPS!!
I'm sorry but i have to call you on this one. Of course you share it out. if i hadn't have posted the DVDs in the first place then there would be no Torrents of Revisited in existence. So i'm pretty sure that i have already shared, and i don't have to worry about keeping my PC & internet tied up for weeks just so there can be enough seeders for someone else to take over. You don't need to share on usenet because the files are already there because someone was kind enough to share it. They are still there for anyone to access for up to 200 days + and even then you can usually bet that someone will repost a file once it disappears or when asked in a forum. saying torrents are better because you share isn't a very good argument. What happens when you have spent weeks getting a file off torrents only to find that when you get close to finishing the seeder buggers off? a bit stuffed there then aren't you?
It is impossible to max out your download speed on torrents because you will be uploading at the same time, so you bandwidth is limited (unless you set your client not to allow uploading and then that's not sharing is it?)
negative1 said:
STOP COMPARING APPLES TO ORANGES., the only reason i keep
bringing up good/bad comparisons, is because there's a lot of
questions about how to get this release...
But you only seem to bringing up the "torrents are best" argument and giving people false information about other options and how bad newsgroups are compared to torrents when in fact they are not.
Now for god sake can we please get this thread back on topic. This and my episode V thread suddenly turned into a slanging match recently about stupid things and i say NO MORE. God knows what has happened to this site but people just can't seem to get along any more and get aggressive when someone has a different point of view than them even when they have been proven wrong about a subject (not talking about the subject we have been going on about recently in here by the way)
now please can we have a return to what this site use to be like?