I broke down and decided to try Amazon's unbox service out. Season five of 24 was just too tempting condidering the DVD set is months away from shipping.
I began my wonderful journey at 3PM today. It is now 10PM and I have not been able to download a complete espisode.
After purchasing the entire season and downloading amazon's software all the episodes were queued and began downloading automatically. This would have been great except unbox started with episode 2 first. I didn't think much of this since episode 1 was next in line to be downloaded. I then went out for a few hours.
Four hours later I get home to find episode 2 at 47% and episode 1 frozen at 7%. I check my DSL connection and it is up. I restart amazon's software and the download still doesn't budge. I restart my computer with no luck.
Eventually, I delete episode 1 and that fixes the problem. But now I have episode 2 downloading with episodes 3-24 in the queue. I'm a die hard 24 fan and there is no way I'm going to miss an episode! I need to get episode 1 damnit!
So add episode 1 to the top of the queue and it freezes again. This time it doesn't even start downloading. It stops at "allocating space 100%" and then does nothing.
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I broke down and decided to try Amazon's unbox service out. Season five of 24 was just too tempting condidering the DVD set is months away from shipping. I began my wonderful journey at 3PM today. It is now 10PM and I have not been able to download a complete espisode. After purchasing the entire season and downloading amazon's software all the episodes were queued and began downloading automatically. This would have been great except unbox started with episode 2 first. I didn't think much of this since episode 1 was next in line to be downloaded. I then went out for a few hours. Four hours later I get home to find episode 2 at 47% and episode 1 frozen at 7%. I check my DSL connection and it is up. I restart amazon's software and the download still doesn't budge. I restart my computer with no luck. Eventually, I delete episode 1 and that fixes the problem. But now I have episode 2 downloading with episodes 3-24 in the queue. I'm a die hard 24 fan and there is no way I'm going to miss an episode! I need to get episode 1 damnit! So add episode 1 to the top of the queue and it freezes again. This time it doesn't even start downloading. It stops at "allocating space 100%" and then does nothing.