Downloading lots

Thanks Lenny

Question - what the hell do you do with what you
download :)?:)?:)?????
 
I am limited to 40 gig per month(average speed just
over 200 kb/s) and struggle to keep up with what I
download.

in fact there are movies/doc's etc that I have not
watched yet!! which I have downloaded :):):):) a few
months ago.

I admit there have beeen times where I have wanted
certain things like songs/games series which I have
wanted that took a few months to get, but that has not
been on a consistent month in month out basis.

Do you download for friends / family as well? What do
you use to archive what you download? or do you just
delete what you have downloaded once you used/watch
it?

I am currently looking at how to manage the many gigs
that I have downloaded over the years ie
cds-dvds-hddrivess....where I can hide so that won't
be stolen.

Last year had my new pc stolen and was pleasantly
surprised to find that I had small hddrives with a lot
of what I had stolen photos/songs/docos/movies/games
etc on the old hhdrives.

John

--- Lenny_Nero <[email protected]> wrote:

> Evzen Polenka said
> 
> > Lenny_Nero wrote:
> > 
> >> Its a testing server (like most free servers) and
> needs to be worked on
> >> every now and then this is the point that the
> nay-sayers miss when they
> >> say free servers dont work.
> > 
> > I fully understand that free servers are testing
> servers, thus are not
> > always on... and I'm not complaining.
> > 
> > But on the other hand that's exactly the point why
> I'm using paid
> > servers - I don't have to worry about the server
> being on or off in the
> > very moment I want to pull something from the
> usenet... I simply launch
> > BNR and immediately start downloading.
> > 
> > No searching for right-now-working servers, no
> waiting in the looong
> > queue of users 'hammering' the server (), no
> waiting for slow downloads
> > (that 30 KB/s is unacceptable for me)...
> > 
> > It's nice to have something for free, but it has
> to be worth it for me.
> > For example, I can be completely happy with GIMP,
> no need to buy
> > Photoshop... But all that cons of free news
> servers usage are simply not
> > worth for me, they don't ballance the only pro
> which is the price.
> > 
> > I can make that 15 USD for paying my NSP in, say,
> one hour... so why
> > would I spend that hour or even more by all that
> hassle related to free
> > servers usage? I used to do all that in the past,
> but find it to be too
> > annoying for me.
> > 
> > --
> > 	Bye, Evzen
> 
> Anyone of my 3 BNR setups I use for the main have
> not been idle for one
> minute over the lst few years, and I expect a lot
> longer.
> 
> Its up to you, if you want to pay more for something
> than I do, as I said
> I try to pay as little as I can for everything. When
> I buy a car I get
> what is classed as a pre reg, I just saved (two
> months ago) £8000 on my S
> class because the dealer (like every main dealer
> does to keep the sales
> numbers up for the 2 times a year that they count)
> registered it for the
> new plate before they had someone to buy it... I
> admit it did have 530
> miles on the clock, where as if I had gave them the
> 8 grand I could have
> had less than 200.
> 
> Big deal, most people dont like to ask "what pre reg
> deals have you got ?"
> it means nothing to me.
> 
> As said 30 KB/sec is a limit... but I have more than
> 10 servers limited to
> around that per connection, with only one of them
> that will only let me
> connect with one connection. I have at least 3 or 4
> connections with each
> other server... work it out.
> 
> As normal my connection is maxed out. The limation
> is in your head and
> that suits me fine. I have just put ~7.5 GB in my
> que and that will be
> done by the morning and I very much doubt that I
> will have had to pay for
> any of it, but if I do... its no matter. I will just
> put about the same in
> and go out for the day.
> 
> Its not the cost, its the fact that I dont have to
> pay, I have only been
> saying in another group that I did say 10 or 15
> years ago that I would
> never pay for usenet. But now I say your silly to
> play with bin files
> without one.
> 
> As for always searching for free servers, that is in
> the past, I have been
> at it long enuff to know the addys of every testing
> server there is, and
> every now and then I open up a connection to one of
> the servers that is
> not working to check it that can take up 20 seconds
> per server depending
> on the authinfo timeout.
> 
> I got 3 months on testnews.megabitz.net before (and
> 2 months on
> news.easynews.nl testing server before that) it got
> posted in afn, and yes
> it now has a que to get in, but as I have said I
> dont sit watching my
> downloader it is set to retry all on its own, and it
> goes down thru the
> list of servers with my 5 pay servers at the bottom
> of the list, last
> month I expect I used less than 50 GB of my pay
> servers for the 100's of
> GB I did download, as I said its not a big deal.
> 
> I have just checked and for last month I used 3.4 GB
> with my shortest
> server that I use for overviews (which are free) and
> 2.73 GB with my long
> server and that was it for ~400 GB all of the rest
> was free, that was much
> better than I thought :)
> 
> But then if everyone could do it I expect that the
> que's would be longer
> on the few that have a que. I am not going to keep
> going on about it, but
> as said... I dont like the Gimp and do use Photoshop
> its the way it is.
> 
> L.
> 
> -- 
> Want to help to keep the best free usenet servers
> running ?
> http://www.readfreenews.com
> 
> 
> 



       
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