Q on downloading DVDs

[red900ss]

Howdy all,

not quite a game Q but this section probably has the highest number of geeks per pixel.

Have any of you paid to d/l movies from the various pay sites? NO NOT for pr0n! :talk2hand

The speed of shareaza and the like is akin to water torture so I'm wondering if the pay sites are better or just a sham to take your money and offer the same speed as the freebies.

tia

[Beer Baron]

I find using various torrent site (isohunt etc) downloaded via bit torrent is not too bad. not that I've ever done it of course... just what I heard.

[red900ss]

hmm thanks Richard, must be something I'm doing wrong...3 kB/s for a 2 gig file is ridicurous.

[Beer Baron]

maybe they just don't like you? have you used lots of cool hacker terms like: "l33t" "n00b" "r0x0r" etc?

This could all help with your download. I guess it mostly just depeds on which sites/people are seeding the downloads. perhaps you are downloading stuff that's not popular and hence not hosted on anything fast?

[benm]

I know someone (wink) thats been using a certain paysite for about a year now without any issues. It has everything you could want (well it keeps me happy) and works on a monthly unlimited data subscription.

I have no idea how I found it but its better than any P2P you could dream of.

[red900ss]

and the name of the mystery site is?????.....any hints? clues? URL?

[Beauie]

dont ask me how 2 use them.....

www.packetnews.com needs mirc but free

www.easynews.com pay site worth the $$ for the speed - max out my connection @ 500kb/s

pain 2 use 4 the 1st time but like anything u will get use to it

[syx]

Bittorrent would be your best bet.

Download Azureus (google for it)

Unblock port 6881 on your router (I just unblocked port 6800-6900)

Find some good bittorrent sites, your set.

Dont know whether we are allowed to post the names of the sites cos of illegal stuff.

[BigDatto]

Beauie is on the right track leeching from Usenet. Get a good leech prog like Newsleecher, sign up for a news server (most are USD $10 or less p/m) & leech some binaries @ 700kB/s. You'll be downloading video faster than you can watch it.

[benm]

What are some recommended binarie groups? I've grabbed 7gb in the past 24hrs from afew so far...

[BigDatto]

alt.binaries.cd.image

alt.binaries.games

alt.binaries.games.encrypted

are some goodies that should keep you busy for a while. Just scroll thru the alt.binaries.*list, look for the ones with lots of posts (10's of 1000's) they're the ones with all the goodness. you will definitely want a program called QuickPar to repair damaged archives.

Makes broadband worthwhile eh ?

[Lithius]

In the past I've just been using torrents... never heard of the newsgroup method. So i have to subscribe and pay?

If you use torrents the following sites are the best I know of...

www.filelist.org

www.filemp3.org

www.torrentbytes.net

Anyone know of any better ones for PS2 games? I know of torrentreactor and thepiratebay but they aren't real good for them either.

[(B1) MR_fanny]

im new to this binary thing too.....drove me nuts trying to find a decent group with all the needed files. i just gave up.

oh and those torrent sites seemed to be full. i couldnt sign up. ah well's

[SirSkyline]

bottler is a good one but most ISP's block the port it uses

[Lithius]

Ya they're usually full but clear inactive users pretty frequently... i just checked back with them once a day for a few days and i could sign up.

[Jolinator]

www.torrentreactor.com

www.mininova.org