Download accelerator and a news group

knip · 14 Apr 2007 at 07:53

Ok well after only ever getting an average of 20kbs out of bit comet whilst trying to download anything a mate of mine suggested I got myself a download accelerator and join a news group. Well last night I downloaded said accelerator and he let me access his news group account so I could test it out. I managed to possibly get an episode of "something" in about 20 mins and my download speed was something like 300kbs.

Cue very happy Knip!

My question is will this download accelerator cause me any problems either with my puter (due to the high speed) or with Pipex. Im on an up to 8 meg connection but only ever get about 3 and a half. Will they suddenly start wondering how and why I am downloading so much faster, and am I allowed to? As in will I get into trouble for doing this.

I need to subscribe to the news group so before I start coughing up the moulah I just wanted to ask peoples opinions as the advice ive had here in the past has always been very good.
(and this is all hypothetical and I wouldnt consider doing anything illegal anyway)

WotDa · 14 Apr 2007 at 08:44

knip said:
My question is will this download accelerator cause me any problems either with my puter (due to the high speed) or with Pipex. I'm on an up to 8 meg connection but only ever get about 3 and a half. Will they suddenly start wondering how and why I am downloading so much faster, and am I allowed to? As in will I get into trouble for doing this.

No, keep doing it, eventually they'll get annoyed and kick you off, then you can find a proper ISP.

Try a test on the newsgroups without this 'accelerator' and see what you get, also, remove said incriminating illegal activities.

Peace · 14 Apr 2007 at 08:58

As long as you stay below your monthly bandwidth allowance they don't care.

What news group are you signing up with and what client are you using to download, if i may ask?

Peace

WotDa · 14 Apr 2007 at 09:00

Peace said:
As long as you stay below your monthly bandwidth allowance they don't care.

I think they'll care when copyright holders send snotty emails to forward.

knip · 14 Apr 2007 at 09:19

WotDa said:
Try a test on the newsgroups without this 'accelerator' and see what you get, also, remove said incriminating illegal activities.

From my hard drive once ive viewed them you mean?

knip · 14 Apr 2007 at 09:22

Peace said:
As long as you stay below your monthly bandwidth allowance they don't care.

What news group are you signing up with and what client are you using to download, if i may ask?

Peace

I am on an 8 mb connection with no download limit (will they put one on then once they see im nicking all the bandwidth - I could say it was back payments in bandwidth for 3 months of crap service

)

The one I looked at last night was easynews, dont know what client it was using to download it just opened up the download within the accelerator and then I unzipped it from there.

WotDa · 14 Apr 2007 at 09:32

knip said:
From my hard drive once ive viewed them you mean?

No, from the thread to stop you being suspended/banned.

knip · 14 Apr 2007 at 09:35

WotDa said:
No, from the thread to stop you being suspended/banned.

Twas merely all hypothetical questions anyway

Tony Williams · 14 Apr 2007 at 12:48

I say, milk your bandwidth for all you can (keeping to the cap) - they ban you, move.

Peace · 14 Apr 2007 at 16:52

knip said:
I am on an 8 mb connection with no download limit (will they put one on then once they see im nicking all the bandwidth - I could say it was back payments in bandwidth for 3 months of crap service )

The one I looked at last night was easynews, dont know what client it was using to download it just opened up the download within the accelerator and then I unzipped it from there.

Problem is that most ISP have a so called unlimited account but they have a FUP and if they believe you use too much bandwidth they will throttle your connection and you will receive a warning email.

As long as you don't download day & night 24/7 i believe you won't have a problem but i would check out the FUP from Pipex which should give you more info about thier on/off peak times.....

Btw, i use newshosting and newsleecher.

M0t0r0la · 14 Apr 2007 at 17:38

Peace said:
Btw, i use newshosting and newsleecher.

The best choice bar none

Also Newzbin rocks for nzb's

Windle · 15 Apr 2007 at 01:41

Wouldn't worry about Pipex' FUP too much tbh. I believe they've bought Freedom 2 Surf (My ISP) and these are my last few months...

Date/Inbound(Peak)/Outbound(Peak)/Inbound(Off Peak)/Outbound(Off Peak)

November 2006 57,690.1 MBytes 2,922.3 MBytes 4,240.7 MBytes 182.7 MBytes
December 2006 46,643.0 MBytes 2,267.8 MBytes 10,420.9 MBytes 441.2 MBytes
January 2007 94,046.3 MBytes 4,255.3 MBytes 33,402.0 MBytes 1,260.6 MBytes
February 2007 60,372.3 MBytes 3,807.2 MBytes 6,850.9 MBytes 283.7 MBytes
March 2007 108,509.4 MBytes 7,715.3 MBytes 40,727.3 MBytes 2,275.3 MBytes

Windle · 15 Apr 2007 at 01:42

Never had an email or anything

Oh and Newsdemon and Newsleecher here

barrymacp · 15 Apr 2007 at 02:24

Were can i get this download thingy?

Windle · 15 Apr 2007 at 02:26

Personally i find Download Accelerator to be useless, especially if your on a Newsgroup.

barrymacp · 15 Apr 2007 at 02:29

Were can i get it from?

Windle · 15 Apr 2007 at 03:10

Heard of a thing called Google?

knip · 15 Apr 2007 at 09:34

Windle said:
Personally i find Download Accelerator to be useless, especially if your on a Newsgroup.

Well I was chuffed going from 8 hours at least to download "something" to under half an hour.
Mustnt grumble.

knip · 15 Apr 2007 at 09:36

Windle said:
Wouldn't worry about Pipex' FUP too much tbh. I believe they've bought Freedom 2 Surf (My ISP) and these are my last few months...

Do you have any idea how much I would need to stay under to stay out of trouble? (just in case)

rayer · 15 Apr 2007 at 11:05

Until they email you I spose. If you do go over the FUP, ISP's usually give you a warning first.
You will really have to kick the Ar$e out of it though for them to did this.