Torrents on O2 Midband

Dazza

Do o2 slow you down if you download torrents?

crazygeryy

Darragh12 wrote: »

Do o2 slow you down if you download torrents?

i dont know but i doubt it very much unless you go over your upload or download limit if you have one.now if it was eircom i wouldnt be surprised but o2, i cant see them policing it that much to be honest.

torrents are very finicky things.i have a 20mb line and i rarely if ever get near it with torrents.im not with o2 but still.whats your line speed?

Dazza

crazygeryy wrote: »

i dont know but i doubt it very much unless you go over your upload or download limit if you have one.now if it was eircom i wouldnt be surprised but o2, i cant see them policing it that much to be honest.

torrents are very finicky things.i have a 20mb line and i rarely if ever get near it with torrents.im not with o2 but still.whats your line speed?

Well it goes from 4 meg in the morning to half a meg at night. Its only o.17 m now . I havent used torrent in a few months except for this morning so I think that might be why its so slow now.
I havent heard of this happening with o2 before ..

guil

are you using mobile broadband, if so well its just they way it works, can be fast 1 min but slow as a snail at other times

rorymcgrory

Very torrent i download i cannot watch. It downloads in about 5 mins via dialup connection and is only in region of 20kb.

Im no computer nerd but can a movie be compressed into 20kb?

Dazza

guil wrote: »

are you using mobile broadband, if so well its just they way it works, can be fast 1 min but slow as a snail at other times

Ya unfortunately :@. No other option at the moment

colinod0806

rorymcgrory wrote: »

Very torrent i download i cannot watch. It downloads in about 5 mins via dialup connection and is only in region of 20kb.

Im no computer nerd but can a movie be compressed into 20kb?

It sounds to me like you're only download the torrent ..have you downloaded and installed a bittorrent client?

crazygeryy

rorymcgrory wrote: »

Very torrent i download i cannot watch. It downloads in about 5 mins via dialup connection and is only in region of 20kb.

Im no computer nerd but can a movie be compressed into 20kb?

in some cases you download a little program that says it the movie but when you try to play it you have to pay for it.but it would be bigger than 20kb

rorymcgrory

These files I have are about 20KB. I have only 2GB of ram in this machine, I think thats why i cant open them

LaVail

rorymcgrory wrote: »

These files I have are about 20KB. I have only 2GB of ram in this machine, I think thats why i cant open them

RAM has nothing to do with it imo. Have you downloaded a torrent client on your machine? Try installing utorrent or another client and then go and download whatever you want. You need a client for torrents otherwise it will not work.

Also be careful of small size files as they can be virus's etc, Look for large files XMB or XGB and you should be ok.

watty

Download by ordering a DVD or BluRay online or buy in Tesco/HMV.

jor el

No discussion of downloading movies is to be had here. Stick to the topic of the thread please; Torrent speed issues on O2 Midband product.