Aussie Top Gear, mini-review

air dinkum from my Nreighbours watching days lol.

A shiney gold tooth aswell no doubt.

Cool :-)

For all!

Also alt.binaries.multimedia for those who don't want to wait.

I keep thinking I really should get a newsgroup account that lets me have binaries, can't you download loads of films/music and stuff from them too? Cos I have an addiction to buying DVDs, well, BluRays now, and if it's a film I've seen, or know I want, it's not a problem. But if I haven't seen the film, and aren't sure it's for me, I won't buy it. So if I can get a download, and I like it, then I buy it, if I don't, I don't - but I wouldn't have anyway. Same with music as well.

So really, me downloading gets the film companies and record labels, extra money, as I wouldn't buy a fair bit of stuff unless I'd downloaded it :-) It's a shame really, not everyone is as morally perfect as me... Then downloading would be utterley encouraged, except for shit films, such as the

2nd and 3rd Starship Troopers... My god they're the worst films I've ever seen... Yes, I enjoyed the mindless violence and excessive gore of the first one hehe :-)

I use

for binary newsgroups (£25 for 110GB) and to search and download.You can download anything from newsgroups and do it at your maximum download speed anytime. With Astranews you can normally download anything uploaded around the last 110 days.Anything you get on Bittorrent or any other P2P will usually be in the newsgroups.

That's not bad at all, is that monthly I assume?

It's 110GB for $25 (not pounds as I said before) and you can take as long as you want to use it, it doesn't expire. If you need more than that you can get an unlimited monthly package for $15.

WHats the difference between the binaries newgroups and p2p like bittorent ?

Files on bittorrent are shared on peoples PC's and even though you can download from multiple sources I've usually found downloads to be relatively slow. Files on the newsgroups are uploaded by people to Usenet servers, you can then download the files directly from the servers, often at your maximum download speed.

Well at that price there's no reason not to is there hehe! That's great, I didn't wanna get pulled into a monthly package, and my 'fair usage' policy here is 60gb, so I could barely use 110gb in 2 months, so I'd be better off just buying another 110gb as and when.

The thing I love about torrents is the fact that you can almost always download anything if you're willing to wait a while due to the built in redundancy.

i'm the same but not with films with music, i download an album and if i like it i'll buy it, but normally in a sale or on cheap import lol but i do eventually buy it.

Haha I downloaded ST3 a couple of days ago. I haven't dared watch it yet...

Not such a big deal for me though, if I get a 720p TV show (~1GB a time) in a couple of hours then I've no problem with that. Torrent speeds are usually about 250k/sec. If I download a couple at a time then they usually download at about 250k/sec each.

Earlier in the year I was downloading BSG 1GB episodes at 1.3MB/sec from P2P!

That is largely because of traffic shaping by your ISP.

I have access to the nertnet via two routes. My own broadband/ISP and another network where I and my co-workers set the policies. The latter network where I can access the net without an ISP deciding what I can download and how fast allows me to download documents where the speed is limited only by the upload rate of the peers. So I can see rates of several MB/s on torrents with hundreds of users (such as Jamendo for example). At home I'm lucky if those same torrents hit as high as

150kB/s.

Don't, just don't, I downloaded it 'cos it was in HD 1080, twas s**te.....

That was alright that. Charlie Cox did a decent job, familiar voice to British petrolheads I guess and should be able to drive, with him being ex-BTCC

Better or worse than the new Knight Rider?

Worse, I'm almost enjoying the new knight rider, apart from the bad plot, bad scripts, bad acting and bad CG everything. It seems like the entire show is an excuse for the female to take her top off.