Hey, I use Bittorrent a lot. I use it all over http://www.the-underdogs.org/, to save them needed bandwidth, and sometimes, to download fan movies or some other junk. It is a real pain in the neck. That's the only way to download large files on the internet, and it's awfully slow. With my internet connection getting 200-300 kbps on respectable sites, Bittorrent is excruciating. It gave me 100 kbps once, and that was after 5 hours of waiting. At an average of 40 kbps, it takes way too long for this to be a viable solution. I despise it, but it's the only thing I can use in some situations. Recently, one of my friends ordered Unreal Tournament 2004 online. He never recieved it. It was lost in the mail. Since he owned the liscence, he asked me to download it for him, since he had dialup. It is upwards of two gigabytes. Imagine that at 40 kbps. Not a chance. If there's a better, faster solution, I'd go with that, but for now, I'm avoiding 35% of internet downloads.
Well, that's a cool idea, but I doubt it'll happen soon. The industry's catching up with hacks and such, and I'm pretty sure they'll stay ahead. There's that, and that most people (definetely me), would probaby fry the whole thing, and never have an iPod. I'll stick with store-bought.
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Yeah. Guess you're right. I'll have to do some tweaking...
Hey, I use Bittorrent a lot. I use it all over http://www.the-underdogs.org/, to save them needed bandwidth, and sometimes, to download fan movies or some other junk. It is a real pain in the neck. That's the only way to download large files on the internet, and it's awfully slow. With my internet connection getting 200-300 kbps on respectable sites, Bittorrent is excruciating. It gave me 100 kbps once, and that was after 5 hours of waiting. At an average of 40 kbps, it takes way too long for this to be a viable solution. I despise it, but it's the only thing I can use in some situations. Recently, one of my friends ordered Unreal Tournament 2004 online. He never recieved it. It was lost in the mail. Since he owned the liscence, he asked me to download it for him, since he had dialup. It is upwards of two gigabytes. Imagine that at 40 kbps. Not a chance. If there's a better, faster solution, I'd go with that, but for now, I'm avoiding 35% of internet downloads.
Well, that's a cool idea, but I doubt it'll happen soon. The industry's catching up with hacks and such, and I'm pretty sure they'll stay ahead. There's that, and that most people (definetely me), would probaby fry the whole thing, and never have an iPod. I'll stick with store-bought.