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viceroy

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Alright, I have about 7gig left for June and no real clue as to what to download.

I've tried P2P and that is just hopeless, nothing downloads despite me being able to search and pick what I want, so normal HTTP and FTP channels.

Any decent sites to get cool motoring videos, games, anything of interest really.
 
Get yourself the DCC++ client, open some upload slots, and hook into sahub or one of the many international hubs off the public hublist.
Search for your chosen files, and queue up downloads. Most of the time you need to wait for slots to become available to download, so have several files in play at all times to maximise success.
The client retries the selected users you have opted to download from, so it will get you a slot eventually.
Leave it running 24/7.

I'm using the above approach to get tv series that aren't available or no longer showing in SA - eg. the entire first season of "Pimp my Ride" :)
 
I second what lewstherin says :)
(for myself local hubs dont have the things I'm into - but have happily downloaded 38 gigs off international dc++ hubs, since the middle of the month, when I started on adsl)
 
viceroy said:
Alright, I have about 7gig left for June and no real clue as to what to download.

I've tried P2P and that is just hopeless, nothing downloads despite me being able to search and pick what I want
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Is your router configured correctly ?
Popular P2P bittorrent downloads should fly down if you've opened the correct ports.

Remember, with bittorrent, it can take a while for your download to start registering good speeds. On smallish files - under 500mb, it typically takes 5 to 10 minutes to start seeing speeds over 10k - after about 30mins you'll be over 20k. This is with popular downloads.

For larger files it takes a bit longer.
Some files will have more upload speed than download, because there's more leechers than seeders accessing the torrent.
 
bb_matt said:
Is your router configured correctly ?
Popular P2P bittorrent downloads should fly down if you've opened the correct ports.

Remember, with bittorrent, it can take a while for your download to start registering good speeds. On smallish files - under 500mb, it typically takes 5 to 10 minutes to start seeing speeds over 10k - after about 30mins you'll be over 20k. This is with popular downloads.

For larger files it takes a bit longer.
Some files will have more upload speed than download, because there's more leechers than seeders accessing the torrent.
Click to expand...

I had set nat to forward all ports to my pc and opened up the firewall to the p2p client software, I could connect with no problem, could view files for selection and even select them for download, but had 0kb/s download speeds, no matter how long I waited. so yes something could be setup wrong, but I have no idea what
 
Thanks guys!

So thats the reason anyone who wanted to do anything where latency was of high importance couldn't get anything done over the last few days.. How many others did this...

No offence to anyone here, and I know I'm going to get flamed for this.. But its doing things like that which force telscum to enforce all these stupid capping and shaping rules in the first place, and in effect screwing up everything for everyone.. Please dont give me the "your only getting what you pay for story" I'm also paying and I couldn't do anything I wanted to do over the last few days because of everyone pushing their P2P apps to the limit!
 
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