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ibaluas
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AKAbob
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jbsa
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nx
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Having only ever used the free service, I'm hoping it'll be a good thing. I won't miss the captchas, either!
Edit: It's almost as slow as my old dial-up connection.
Maybe I will have to spring for Premium.
Edit: It's almost as slow as my old dial-up connection.
Maybe I will have to spring for Premium.
hahahatschi
Damn, I voted for "good" but I have a lot of second thoughts about it already.
1) The limitation of the download speed is surely against all free users. It doesn't mean so much to me (having only a 768 kbit connection), but I would get really mad if I had a > 2Mbit connection. Even so it means I need generally 25 % more time to download a file. That's ok for 10-15 MB files, but unbearable for any larger file!
This is just to force people with fast connections into a premium account, and its disapproved by me
2) The new rules for rapidpoints are against the free users, too. The file has to be bigger (3 MB) and you can generate only 3 points per hour.
With the old system I needed to log off my internet provider after each download (just to get a new IP-address) and so I could generate up to 20 rapidpoints per hour (calculating with 10 MB files), especially when there was "happy hour". As there is no need to log off now, people will surely loose a lot of points.
Edit: I just saw that premium users are also able to generate rapidpoints, so that might offset the negative things I said in 2).
3) Looks like "happy hour" is gone for good. That's bad, too.
That's all so far, guys
Hope you all enjoy your stay at forumphilia
PS: By the way, I don't really care for myself about the rapidpoints, it just came into my mind.
1) The limitation of the download speed is surely against all free users. It doesn't mean so much to me (having only a 768 kbit connection), but I would get really mad if I had a > 2Mbit connection. Even so it means I need generally 25 % more time to download a file. That's ok for 10-15 MB files, but unbearable for any larger file!
This is just to force people with fast connections into a premium account, and its disapproved by me
2) The new rules for rapidpoints are against the free users, too. The file has to be bigger (3 MB) and you can generate only 3 points per hour.
With the old system I needed to log off my internet provider after each download (just to get a new IP-address) and so I could generate up to 20 rapidpoints per hour (calculating with 10 MB files), especially when there was "happy hour". As there is no need to log off now, people will surely loose a lot of points.
Edit: I just saw that premium users are also able to generate rapidpoints, so that might offset the negative things I said in 2).
3) Looks like "happy hour" is gone for good. That's bad, too.
That's all so far, guys
Hope you all enjoy your stay at forumphilia
PS: By the way, I don't really care for myself about the rapidpoints, it just came into my mind.
lrt13305
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Vaudou
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ramblin'man
jbsa wrote:
hahahatschi wrote:
1) The limitation of the download speed is surely against all free users. It doesn't mean so much to me (having only a 768 kbit connection), but I would get really mad if I had a > 2Mbit connection. Even so it means I need generally 25 % more time to download a file. That's ok for 10-15 MB files, but unbearable for any larger file!
This is just to force people with fast connections into a premium account, and its disapproved by me
Regarding the download speed limit for free users ...
Have to look at the forest and not the trees.
I have a ~5 Mb connection, so watching my download speed go from ~450 Kbit/sec down to at most 63 Kbit/sec was excruciating.
Oh ... the horror ... the horror ... 
For a 100 Mb file, a 4 minute download now stretches out for a painful 27 minutes (ish). In this "can't wait for it" world, 27 minutes is a bloody eternity.
HOWEVER, with no wait in between - which varied from 60 to 100 minutes - I can actually get more free pRon in less time.
And that, my friends, is a good thing.
Who it really sucks for: free users with a non-static IP (or who use software to change the IP and/or fool RS), and a high-speed connection. And that's a lot more people than you might think.
RM
if i were to guess i would say this is bad news for free users in the long run. at first, everyone will be happy with no captchas and no wait times. but imagine dling a 200mb file at 500 kilobits per second (if my math is right that will take approximately 55 minutes at top speed).
hahahatschi wrote:
1) The limitation of the download speed is surely against all free users. It doesn't mean so much to me (having only a 768 kbit connection), but I would get really mad if I had a > 2Mbit connection. Even so it means I need generally 25 % more time to download a file. That's ok for 10-15 MB files, but unbearable for any larger file!
This is just to force people with fast connections into a premium account, and its disapproved by me
Regarding the download speed limit for free users ...
Have to look at the forest and not the trees.
I have a ~5 Mb connection, so watching my download speed go from ~450 Kbit/sec down to at most 63 Kbit/sec was excruciating.
Oh ... the horror ... the horror ... For a 100 Mb file, a 4 minute download now stretches out for a painful 27 minutes (ish). In this "can't wait for it" world, 27 minutes is a bloody eternity.
HOWEVER, with no wait in between - which varied from 60 to 100 minutes - I can actually get more free pRon in less time.
And that, my friends, is a good thing.
Who it really sucks for: free users with a non-static IP (or who use software to change the IP and/or fool RS), and a high-speed connection.
And that's a lot more people than you might think.
RM
jbsa
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ramblin'man wrote:
Who it really sucks for: free users with a non-static IP (or who use software to change the IP and/or fool RS), and a high-speed connection. And that's a lot more people than you might think.
RM
that's who i was talking about. i don't know many free users, but my guess is that if they are relatively net savy they aren't waiting for the 55 minute inbetween wait time
Who it really sucks for: free users with a non-static IP (or who use software to change the IP and/or fool RS), and a high-speed connection.
And that's a lot more people than you might think.
RM
that's who i was talking about. i don't know many free users, but my guess is that if they are relatively net savy they aren't waiting for the 55 minute inbetween wait time
wrwolves
I'm probably spamming
jbsa wrote:
right!
we download (800 kb/sec) a file in 2 min. Then restart the connection and in 10" we were ready for a new dwnl. This really piss me off
ramblin'man wrote:
Who it really sucks for: free users with a non-static IP (or who use software to change the IP and/or fool RS), and a high-speed connection. And that's a lot more people than you might think.
RM
that's who i was talking about. i don't know many free users, but my guess is that if they are relatively net savy they aren't waiting for the 55 minute inbetween wait time
Who it really sucks for: free users with a non-static IP (or who use software to change the IP and/or fool RS), and a high-speed connection.
And that's a lot more people than you might think.
RM
that's who i was talking about. i don't know many free users, but my guess is that if they are relatively net savy they aren't waiting for the 55 minute inbetween wait time
right!
we download (800 kb/sec) a file in 2 min. Then restart the connection and in 10" we were ready for a new dwnl. This really piss me off