If i get a connection of 24Mbit(nearly impossible in India), I would like to buy a link-removed account for 1year and download as much as I can.
My computer would be on atleast for 20hrs a day and I would like to download movies watch them and then delete them as I don't need them any more.
But as I said it is nearly impossible to get a connection of 24Mbit or so in India
I will not dream so big.
But if in near future the prices of internet connection decrease of Airtel is available in my area I will surely use it and do the same as I described above.
I wish that Airtel becomes available in my area as they provide quality broadband service at reasonable rates.
Airtel Rocks.
We are planning to have plans going up to 200Mbits.
Trust me, even at 24Mbits, with or without a RS account, you will find it difficult to keep up - a movie will download in less time than you can watch it. I know this from experience - I subscribe to many channels on Miro, and they would download so quickly that by the time I would finish watching something, 3 or 4 other videos would download - so it's exponential. I would run out of space and have to delete videos on my
laptop more often than I would even be able to watch them all - and to me, this is the point of a fast connection.
While a 24Mbit connection is theoretically capable of over 6TBytes a month, that kind of storage space isn't readily available to the average user. What happens instead when you get such speeds is that the traffic patterns are full of relatively short bursts - a movie here (30 minutes for a DVD-sized copy), an ISO there (under 10 minutes per CD), a
music album or 2 (2-5 minutes)... rather than at 256k, 1mbit, 2mbits etc where more often the traffic pattern would be a little more solid.
I would hazard to guess that whether the users connection is capable of 500Gbytes or 5TBytes, people with high-speed connections (say, 24Mbits) might download roughly as much as someone with 2Mbits simply for the storage factor - but the former has a better experience. If we throw more bandwidth at the user than he can handle (using the watching videos or playing online games as an example), one might expect that his connection will be idle for more than 90-95% of the time (even then, that's still 300-600GB/month - who has time to watch 100 movies a month?)
I have a 4Mbps unlimited connection at night and just got a RS account couple of days ago. There's a daily limit of 4.65 GB and I exhausted that in just under 3 hours. So, no use keeping computer on 20 hours a day, unless you buy Trafficshare, but that's just more money you have to spend.
Good to know - so that works out at about 150GB per month for those with RS.
I can just answer for me. I would leech at max speed once I am done with the downloads. I use a lot of private trackers, and so this is what I really do. I have hardly shutdown my system this year.
Private trackers aren't the question: what is important is where the peers are. Preferably for us, we would hope that people would seed content so as to reduce stress on the international link, however I'll have to keep a watch on the traffic graphs for the first few months and adjust accordingly.
As for your system shutdown, switching to a faster connection might save your parents on electricity
🙂