Sunday, October 14, 2007

Downloading: the good and the bad.

I'm a serial downloader. I get almost all of my music, tv shows, programs and sometimes books (if they're available) from the internet. I've used the browser (the files that I download are primarily hosted on RapidShare) to download, used torrent clients, also used mIRC and of course P2P programs. Here's what I've thought of them.

The browser (through RapidShare)
The good: It's super fast. I can download a show (usually 350 MB in size) in less than an hour.
The bad: TV Shows are usually in parts of 4 and you have to be there to download. Because I don't have a premium account, I have to disconnect the cable after finishing one download so that I'll get a different IP address after I reconnect the connection.

Using torrents:
The good: You can leave the computer.
The bad: Super slow. Used to be fast though. And the speed of the download depends on the number of seeders.

mIRC:
The good: You can leave the computer.
The bad: Slow as well. And if there's a lot of people downloading, you'll have to wait for your turn (and that's a looooong time).

P2P (Ares, Limewire, etc...)
The good: This one was also fast.
The bad: Can't connect at all! I don't know what happened. I tried using Ares a few weeks ago; it connected, but it won't download.

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