Remember the days when....

[Marcus Telcontar]

a 33.6K was a world beating Internet connection? 3K/s was awesome?

First day on my upgraded speed uncapped ADSL connection. I'm staggered. 200K/s I'm getting easily.

My forst office had a 3 ISDN channels handling all network communications and phones 10 years ago. And that one is 100 times the size of the place I am in now, which has Fibre Optic, 1meg with 30 voice channels included. How things have changed.... for the better.

That ISDN channel was 9.6K and cost 7000 per month. Fibre is 1000 a month and 1 meg.

Is it a sign of the times when you curse you cant download at more than 100K/s?

[sirdizzy]

my first modem was a screaming fast 1.8k damn that thing could haul:p

[Shawn]

You know what's even more impressive than 200k/sec downloads? Having three simultaneous downloads, each @ 98k/sec. :) Didn't take me very long to get FotR that way. :)

[Darth Viscera]

beg your pardon? You got FotR other than through me?
my downstream is about 1.6mbps max. 170KB or so.

[Shawn]

Yeah. The quality is hardly beyond reproach, however. :\ It's a CAM.

[Sith Ahnk]

I wish my connection were stable, I'd get 300 everyday
Today I imagine it's at 30-40

[Darth Viscera]

oh, crap. I hate CAMs. Even Telesync is too low.

[TheHolo.Net]

My copy isn't from a cam and its not from Visc. :p

[Darth Viscera]

DVL or DD?

[TheHolo.Net]

Its a DiVX of the DVD that the MMPA (not sure if MMPA is right) sent out to whoever they sent it out to, has that text message about buying illegal copies run by the bottom about every 10 or 15 minutes.

[Darth Viscera]

yep, that's the version that Gav and I have. It was made into a DivX by a group named DVL. 2 CD rip?

[TheHolo.Net]

Yep that was in the file name I do believe.

[Darth Viscera]

*hugs his DivX copy*
good luck, you NovX fellers. August is just around the corner...

Muwhahahahaha! :)

[Marcus Telcontar]

So if i got this right, this is a Critics's copy sourced DVD? How common is it these DVD's get ripped and released across the P2P's?

[TheHolo.Net]

I'm pretty sure it is. The quality is excellent. :D

Thats where I got it from DT. P2P :)

[Sith Ahnk]

Totally common. TPM was on there, and LOTR, and... ummm... a bunch of pron ones. Not that I downloaded any of those.


Really I didn't.



The quality on TPM was amazing.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Hmmmm. I tried WinMX out, but didnt find anything there. However, that might be because I am on an older version that does not sync into as many networks.

Five times watching is not enough! Must watch more!!!

And stop Helen drooling on keyboard when Aragorn appears.

[Sith Ahnk]

The new version of Morpheus sucks, I hate it.

There's a big legal battle brewing. Check out www.musicity.com . It seems Kazza hacked Morpheus! :eek

[TheHolo.Net]

I use Direct Connect++

[Sith Ahnk]

I always used to use Morpheus. It was a godsend.
Now it's the craps.
I might just go back to IRC.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Yog was telling me WinMX can connect to the new Napster and just about any other network. I have to admit, I'm not up with the latest and greatest on the P2P's like I used to be.

[Sith Ahnk]

WinMX can... but the program is not very good. I always preferred either the visual, Napster like Morpheus or the raw, DOS-like IRC.

[TheHolo.Net]

I don't really keep up all that well either. DC++ works well for me, so I'm happy. =)

[Darth Viscera]

I just downloaded Direct Connect a few days ago. I was trying to download Starfighter ISO with it (even shared 39 gigs of DivX so people would be more receptive) but only 1 person per hub or so would have that game, and at like 9KB/sec transfer. Then they would log off after like 30 minutes, and I'd be left without the other 36 RARs, and everybody else partitioned their RAR's into 2.8 meg files or some other partition.

Dang it!

[Vinny Red]

WinMX can use the open nap servers, just like the old napigator/napster could. makes it a wonderful thing.

Now if i could just get rid of this dial up crap, i could get back to the good world of FTP's. I miss that world.

hehe

[sirdizzy]

i agree morpheus used to be great

now its slow and a pain in the **** most of the time

[Shawn]

I still think Morpheus is a good program. You just need to give them a couple of days to release the next version.

I haven't browsed FTPs since I lost my account info for the SA Forums. Need to see about getting that back one of these days...

I didn't like WinMX, from what I saw. It's rather clunky, and I never got enough results.

mIRC is where I got my first 3 gigs or so of MP3s (on dialup, even!). But it's rather futile to try and get movies from it. You just enter a que for the next 84 hours, waiting for the transfer to begin, only to have it cut off because you momentarily dipped below the minimum CPS.

[Vinny Red]

KaZaA/Morpheus same thing....you're right though Shawn, once they get their bugs worked out of the new release, it should be good.

That was the good thing about having friends that used IRC tog et their stuff, causet they they'd put it on their FTP's and giddy up i'd get it and put it on mine

[TheHolo.Net]

Originally posted by Darth_Viscera
I just downloaded Direct Connect a few days ago. I was trying to download Starfighter ISO with it (even shared 39 gigs of DivX so people would be more receptive) but only 1 person per hub or so would have that game, and at like 9KB/sec transfer. Then they would log off after like 30 minutes, and I'd be left without the other 36 RARs, and everybody else partitioned their RAR's into 2.8 meg files or some other partition.

Dang it! DC++ is much better than the standard client.

[Darth Viscera]

++? Where do I get that version?

[TheHolo.Net]

Its a version of DC that allows you to connect to multiple hubs at once and search them all at once, as well as the fact it has no advertising. It can be found:

http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net

[Darth Viscera]

Thank you Mr.Net. I am now free and happily uploading at the marvelous rate of 14KB/sec /4. Starfighter shall soon be mine!