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    My university shuts down your internet access very quickly if you're caught torrenting. The first 3 hours during move in day someone had their internet shut off for torrenting....you get a few warnings though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    ^ uhh wat. Schools are government property. Why would it ever be okay to do any illegal things on government property? Or anywhere at all? >_>
    Unless it's an academy, schools are technically council owned. Schools should block most pirate portals anyway (not saying they're successful). I'm guessing it's illegal anywhere, but internet/data/information laws are veeery vague, no governing force on the internet means that the country you're in affects how you use the internet. I say meh and pirate at school.

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    Quote Originally Posted by i luffs yeww View Post
    ^ uhh wat. Schools are government property. Why would it ever be okay to do any illegal things on government property? Or anywhere at all? >_>
    Yea, as long as they don't know what your're doing :P

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    Gah.. My internet pisses me off!
    On my work laptop I get this:

    On my stationary tower pc I get this:


    And on my gaming laptop I can't connect to the internet at all!
    And neither with my PS3

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zyt3x View Post
    Gah.. My internet pisses me off!
    On my work laptop I get this:

    On my stationary tower pc I get this:


    And on my gaming laptop I can't connect to the internet at all!
    And neither with my PS3
    Those are pretty good speeds, are you sure it's not your laptop broken? :P

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    At home we have around 4/5mbps. At uni my brother gets 60mbps, but he can't use it for torrents and all the good stuff because they monitor what happens on their connection.
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    Honestly, I'd just rent a box overseas and setup a VPN. Cheap, effective.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Capricorn View Post
    Those are pretty good speeds, are you sure it's not your laptop broken? :P
    It worked for me yesterday, and now it's not working for my PS3 either.. I don't know what to believe... :/

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    Maybe something wrong with your wireless router?

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    Yeah, we figured it out, it was the router
    It wasn't in sync with the 'main' router..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smartzkid View Post
    Dude, set up a seedbox and charge donations for it (we could pay with bitcoins?) That would be AWESOME.

    I can torrent at ~5MB/s at work
    Unsure about the bandwidth limits per month. I think we're not really hitting it at the moment though.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Smartzkid View Post
    Where is our server?
    Nederland.

    I doubt Wizzup would let you guys have a seedbox here anyways... villavu getting shutdown isn't worth it. Just buy a cheap dedi somewhere.


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    So can someone help me out.. I have a plan with my ISP that pays for 20mb/s download rate. But when downloading I frequently max out at 2.5mb/s! Why?!

    Also, speedtest.net registers my dl speed as 20mb/s. wtf?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lordsaturn View Post
    So can someone help me out.. I have a plan with my ISP that pays for 20mb/s download rate. But when downloading I frequently max out at 2.5mb/s! Why?!

    Also, speedtest.net registers my dl speed as 20mb/s. wtf?
    bandwidth is measured in megabite per second or kilobit per second.

    Divide 20 mbps by 8 and you get roughtly 2.5 mB/s

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    ^ Yer, thats one of the cheap marketing tricks companies use to sell their products(because mb is quite different from mB)

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    Quote Originally Posted by kongking View Post
    ^ Yer, thats one of the cheap marketing tricks companies use to sell their products(because mb is quite different from mB)
    Not really any marketing tricks... It's not a mix up between what a byte is.

    Bandwidth is measured in bits, storage in bytes (the mix up is between metric and binary)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Capricorn View Post
    Not really any marketing tricks... It's not a mix up between what a byte is.

    Bandwidth is measured in bits, storage in bytes (the mix up is between metric and binary)
    Its not a mixup, thats what the companies use to sell their stuff. Eg: if they wanted to sell a usb, they'd say its 4gb, when its actual capacity is less because they measure it differently on purpose.The difference might not be much when its small, but it rises exponentially as the number increases.
    P.S. People are not aware that its a marketing technique because its been in use for years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kongking View Post
    Its not a mixup, thats what the companies use to sell their stuff. Eg: if they wanted to sell a usb, they'd say its 4gb, when its actual capacity is less because they measure it differently on purpose.The difference might not be much when its small, but it rises exponentially as the number increases.
    P.S. People are not aware that its a marketing technique because its been in use for years.
    Idk if thats a marketing strategy or not, but that's just them using KB with the power of 1000 (SI system) instead of 1024 (binary system), meaning there will be a exponentially increase

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    Quote Originally Posted by kongking View Post
    Its not a mixup, thats what the companies use to sell their stuff. Eg: if they wanted to sell a usb, they'd say its 4gb, when its actual capacity is less because they measure it differently on purpose.The difference might not be much when its small, but it rises exponentially as the number increases.
    Alright now heres the deal, yes when you hear kbps and mbps, it is measured in a metric system. But you have to realize it's a metric representation of bits. 1000 bits = 1 kbps. There are 8 bits to a byte. There is no mix up here, no marketing techniques. I even pointed this out in my post.

    Forget about hard drive's capacity for a second, because we aren't measuring storage when you measure the throughput of your connection. Nobody that I know of sells their connections in bytes. There is no conversion problem here because we are already at the lowest amount of information possible. I could say I am selling a bajillian bit line, and you'd know how many bits you were getting and if you were so inclined, you could do the conversion yourself to find out how many exabytes a second that is.

    Quote Originally Posted by Capricorn View Post
    Not really any marketing tricks... It's not a mix up between what a byte is.

    Bandwidth is measured in bits, storage in bytes (the mix up is between metric and binary)

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    It's still a marketing technique, Capricorn.. Just because you are aware of what they actually mean, it's not like they do it for the technical terms, they do it for business. Most people buying computer-related things which have anything to do with bytes or bits aren't very much aware of the difference. If you think it's specifically to be technical, you're an idiot and don't understand that virtually everything done today is done specifically for sales.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Capricorn View Post
    Alright now heres the deal, yes when you hear kbps and mbps, it is measured in a metric system. But you have to realize it's a metric representation of bits. 1000 bits = 1 kbps. There are 8 bits to a byte. There is no mix up here, no marketing techniques. I even pointed this out in my post.

    Forget about hard drive's capacity for a second, because we aren't measuring storage when you measure the throughput of your connection. Nobody that I know of sells their connections in bytes. There is no conversion problem here because we are already at the lowest amount of information possible. I could say I am selling a bajillian bit line, and you'd know how many bits you were getting and if you were so inclined, you could do the conversion yourself to find out how many exabytes a second that is.
    Yes, I know that you got your facts right, but I'm saying that companies take advantage of the average person who has no idea what the difference between a bit and byte(for an average person, its something like, sounds the same so it probably is the same). We're both right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smartzkid View Post
    Dude, set up a seedbox and charge donations for it (we could pay with bitcoins?) That would be AWESOME.

    I can torrent at ~5MB/s at work
    yeah i get this as well with private trackers
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    I only get around 650kb download, but hey what can I say I live in Australia, 50kb/s is considered fast



    My plan is 5mb/s down 0.50mb/s up, TBH I dont care about the upload speed, it doesn't benefit me that much its the download speed I care about. The plan I got is the best for my area
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