Yes, especially depending on how many people are seeding it.
Edit: Okay, I don't mean normal. I just mean that speeds can vary widely.
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Dana - Jan 26, 2005 11:26:09 am PST #1407 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
DXMachina - Jan 26, 2005 11:27:47 am PST #1408 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It depends upon your connection, your settings, and the number of other people who are torrenting the same file (the more, the better). On the night a show like Lost is released, it usually takes me a couple of hours to download on my cable connection.
Jesse - Jan 26, 2005 11:29:08 am PST #1409 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, so fancy -- now it's less than 4 hours to go! Sweet. How fun is this?? I no longer have to remember to set my stupid non-talking-to-my-cable VCR.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2005 11:30:17 am PST #1410 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've only torrented a few times, but I remember it started out really slow and gradually sped up....
le nubian - Jan 26, 2005 11:44:24 am PST #1411 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jesse,
be careful now. Someone got a threat to have her ISP pull access if she was caught torrenting again.
Don't torrent movies under any conditions. There are tv shows that are high risk too, but I don't know all of them.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 11:46:01 am PST #1412 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Someone got a threat to have her ISP pull access if she was caught torrenting again.
That'd be me. MGM smacked me for downloading Stargate Atlantis. I don't know if only MGM is on the warpath, or what precisely is their stuff.
Stephanie - Jan 26, 2005 11:46:39 am PST #1413 of 10003
Trust my rage
Yeah, I'm not sure it makes a difference, but I only torrent TV.
Also, usually it starts out saying hours and hours, but it always seems to go faster.
le nubian - Jan 26, 2005 11:52:42 am PST #1414 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Is MGM behing "Dead LIke Me" - because whatever studio is behind DLM also sent lawsuit letters to ISPs back in September or October.
Jesse - Jan 26, 2005 11:53:42 am PST #1415 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, so I will still attempt the whole VCR action thing. It's so annoying on principle that one thing would be OK, but not the other.
Oh, and now it's down to less than two hours. Huh.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 11:55:11 am PST #1416 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DLM is indeed MGM.