UBS ISP's

Hi guys,

Just wondering if there are any ISP's out there that don't cap p2p
downloads etc - the likes of Ihug etc?

I'm currently with Orcon, and after changing to bitstream - its been
terrible (as i've heard).

I deffinatly don't download a lot, but the odd occasion I do download
a torrent, its quite frustrating. I figure if i'm paying for 1gb, (or
10gb whatever it may be) I should be able to download that ammount?

I'd deffinatly never do more than 7-8gb per month at most. Price isn't
too much of a concern (within reason of course)

TIA

 

What most people do it try and download their "torrents" at peak time (and
yes they do slow down during peak times), but they should speed up alot
offpeak.
Your UBS is on 24 hours a day, so just leave it running all night).

Thanks
Craig

 

Im with Quicksilver and havent had any limiting that Ive noticed......

 

My torrents rarely drop below the 27k/sec limit I have set in azureus - perhaps
for a few hours each evening, but nothing that I find annoying

 

Yes, I don't think that Ihug does any traffic shaping. I can easily get
30+kB/sec with 256kb/sec broadband. All their plans are 2mbit now.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

 

I don't understand why people are complaining about this.

I'm with Orcon, and I just never notice any slowdown using Bittorrent,
other than how I'd expect BT to behave.

I'm on 256k, maybe it is different for other plans; and anyway, I don't
want BT to hog all the bandwidth. I consistently get 25kbs+ on
reasonably popular torrents, and I've done 25GB* in the past 20 days.

*(Suse 10 and 10.1a was released, OK?)

YMMV

 

Ok, just installed Azureus as it seems to be the go. I'm new so please be
gentle...

How can I find the episodes of the first two series of '24'? I missed them
when they were on TV and am really enjoying series 3. I'd like to see the
other two.

So far, searching for '24' is giving me way too many hits, some of them of
the TV series but none of which are series one or two.

Thank you.

 

I'm thinking of moving to Orcon, how do you find their USB - is it generally
reliable?
..

 

Personally I don't think that torrents are the best way to get old TV
episodes, emule or DC are more suited (i grabbed the same seasons of 24
from them, searching was a PITA, however i found some magnet: links that
made it easy). I like the "hdtv.lol" rips best, the quality is amazing
(and widescreen).
However, if you want to use BT, you are in luck: Mininova has a whole
section devoted to 24: http://www.mininova.org/sub/3

 

I have them, maybe I could burn them and pass them to you for $5 or
something?

I actually have Season 1, 2, 3 and 4 though I have not yet extracted and
checked them yet.


--
Mark Heyes (New Zealand)
See my pics at www.gigatech.co.nz (last updated 5-September-05)
"The person on the other side was a young woman. Very obviously a
young woman. There was no possible way she could have been mistaken
for a young man in any language, especially Braille."
Maskerade

 

Wow!! That would be awesome! Yes please.

I'm keen on all you can let me have. <goes over to other machine and stops
season 3 pilot download>

Could you please email me on misfitnz at gmail dot com? If you'd like to
give me a bank account number I'll deposit the money for costs and give you
my address..

You beauty!!

Happy happy. Joy joy.

 

Thanks a lot David. Much appreciated. However, Mark has very generously
offered me an alternative. URL recorded though for future reference.

Cheers,

 

As to speed - I'm currently downloading at >30kbs and this is my normal
experience.

As to reliability - Orcon UBS isn't reliable, the longest connection
this month was 6 days, with 2 days being the norm. At least the IP
address doesn't change, and in fact I rarely even notice the outages
(although that doesn't make them acceptable).

The thing is, it may not even be under Orcon's control and may be
present in other UBS offerings.

But I'm fairly happy with Orcon and would recommend them, they have
vastly improved from their low point near the beginning of this year; I
can even listen to internet radio again, now.

 

I would avoid any kind of USB for network connections. Stick to Ethernet.