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I have been meaning to. My ISP (BE) is having some DNS issues, I need to verify that throughput is unaffected (I can normally download about 1.3MB per sec from Apple/MS servers).
Watch this space.
rp2000
Edit: Too many ISP issues tonight for me to do a fair test. Annoying as BE have been perfect for last 4 months (ever since I had it) but they are struggling a bit tonight with DNS (which I have switch to opendns) and speed is not consistent. Maybe tomorrow. I am anxious to watch 300 in HD having only seen it once at the cinema so far, and not owning the Blu-Ray.
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My The Matrix HD download is only 'The Ma...' it's a partial download!
Oh man! Off to try and download it again! Pity there doesn't seem to be a way to find out how much was actually downloaded.
Oh man! Off to try and download it again! Pity there doesn't seem to be a way to find out how much was actually downloaded.
Silver account is free, which gives you access to the marketplace.
You pay the sub for Gold, which gives you online gaming.
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Finally managed to download The Matrix HD - overnight again.
Had a quick butchers of it this morning - nice, sharp, clear flic.
I'll watch the rest tonight as I now have about 22.5hrs and counting before it implodes!
Don't think I'll be downloading them too often though.
Had a quick butchers of it this morning - nice, sharp, clear flic.
I'll watch the rest tonight as I now have about 22.5hrs and counting before it implodes!
Don't think I'll be downloading them too often though.
I thought you were throwing a wobbly at anyone claiming it was your ISP that was causing the issue?
Mate I'm on BE too and have just managed to resolve a speed issue which crept up out of no where. I've been with them since the start of the year and they're superb in almost every aspect inc support. However over the past month my router's connection speeds have been all over the place.
From my typical 17-19mb connection, I'd return home to 2-4mb downstream and 100kbps upstream (1.3mb the norm). They looked at my line or something and found an issue. They put my line to 9nM (no idea) and for the past few days I've been connected at 20mb without a single speed drop.
Not at all,
Possibly you have not read my posts correctly. The day before yesterday when I posted in this thread there was a DNS issue. DNS has no bearing on data throughput. This can be fixed by changing DNS servers which I did. And also assisted others in doing so.
Yesterday Xbox Live was slow all evening for many many people, I called people on other ISPs and people I know in real life to confirm this. Changing DNS servers did not help in anyway. Yet my data throughput for PSN and any other internet based services was perfect, eliminating my ISP end. I was annoyed yesterday as I was looking forward to downloading the Burnout demo after a hard day at work. Live was fast yesterday morning when most ppl here seem to have got the demo. In the evening it was slow.
Different issue, their DNS servers have been having issues. I only noticed when I checked their forums as others have been having it for ages, but it did not affect me till Wednesday, easily fixed by changing DNS servers. First issue I have had and it was resolved in 24 hours so I am not fussed. Unsure what you mean with the 9nm? Is it possible you refer to the SNR margin they set for you? which affects sync speeds and FEC errors?
rp2000
Edit: Anyway this isn't the networking forum!!!
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Nuts, was up to maybe 80% download on Zodiac HD, left it on overnight etc, (8Mb ADSL but taking ages 
when it came up and said "Zodiac HD Can't download"
Bugger, I have to start it from scratch, at least I don't have to pay for it again
Just gonna take 2 days to do it
when it came up and said "Zodiac HD Can't download"Bugger, I have to start it from scratch, at least I don't have to pay for it again
Just gonna take 2 days to do it
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Ive always said the infastructure by UK ISP's for this sort of service just isn't good enough yet. Yes its all very nice that MS can do this or other companies are about to do this but someone needs to tell ISP providers than the days of "just browsing the internet" and reading "e-mails" just isn't good enough these days. Caps, Fair Usage Polices, Traffic Management are all killing such services.
I downloaded the HD documentary on Need for Speed ProStreet, but dunno if that counts.
Ha, was that any good?
I too wasn't sure what nm was, i'd never heard of it either tbh. They never did explain it either. Ah well.
I downloaded 3 kings last night. Only seemed to take a few hours on (Up To) 8Mb. First time i have downloaded or seen an HD movie. I dont really understand a lot about HDtv, but i do have an HD Tv, and cant say the quality was much better.
It wasnt like the difference between the same game on an SD tv and an HD one. i really do notice a difference there!
It wasnt like the difference between the same game on an SD tv and an HD one. i really do notice a difference there!
Yes, downloaded Swordfish and 300 in HD. Swordfish was a waste of cash, but thats becuase its a bad movie rather than anything else.
300 was great, and I enjoyed it, but I do not have any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray stuff to compare it to. The image quality was great and the film was ok. So I'm quite happy with the service, now they just need to have some films I give a **** about watching. Some more recent stuff would be better.
However i wish you had 48 hours to watch a film, because my GF has a tendancy to fall asleep half way though films, and if I could get her to sit down and watch the second half again, its more likely to be at the same time as we orignally started watching the film, which obviously is just after the 24 hour limit has expired. Very frustrating.
Yeah 48hrs would be much better imo.