Serious question. I am a pure leech and only DL via http, newsgrous or IRC. Why bother using torrents? For those of us with bandwidth caps, it sucks balls having to maintain a good ratio.
Exactly, I have a great connection, and shit tons of bandwidth, but I still mainly use torrents for movies and music.
I rarely seed shit also, my ratio is probably the worst you have ever seen, Like 2TB down, 4GB up. Unless on the rare occasion it is something I really like and there are far to few seeds, then I seed for a day or so.
I use torrents whenever available (for example, when downloading an ISO for a Linux Live CD) as my connection is unstable. If it suddenly drops out in the middle of a direct download, I'll have to start again. However, if the connection drops in the middle of a Torrent, I can pick up where I left off Plus there's better speeds, and more of a community.
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Exactly, I have a great connection, and shit tons of bandwidth, but I still mainly use torrents for movies and music.
I rarely seed shit also, my ratio is probably the worst you have ever seen, Like 2TB down, 4GB up. Unless on the rare occasion it is something I really like and there are far to few seeds, then I seed for a day or so.
It is.
Depending on the torrent I can download that in under and hour.
Even premium accounts on RS and shit, I don't get near those speeds. It's all about selecting the proper torrents to DL, and tweaking some settings.
Where do you get and how much do you pay for that kind of connection?
But charter keeps hooking us up with free speed increases.
Also it's cable and no one else in my "hood" uses it. Which helps my speed quite a bit.
Don't know much about IRC downloads.
I love uni for this reason