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Sopranos > 12 episodes US$100 regular or $70 Amazon. Ouch.

As Tom has pointed out, bandwidth can be sublet cheaply. With a Torrent methodology, I might download 2 or 3 few episodes which might take a day or more and then be uploading them for the rest of the month or two if the client software was left running. I've never experienced any torrent connection that was as fast as a dedicated high speed download server (that's well balanced).

Have prices been published yet for this new download service? Maybe my initial point was moot if uploaders earn back download credits or something.


The only service that downloads faster than torrents for me is news even Microsoft isn't faster. I almost always get around the max speed of my cable modem when using Azureus (News is ALWAYS maxed out). The key to getting good speed with torrents is to never max out your upstream, if you do then the downstream will suffer.

Here is a speed test I did a few weeks ago:
http://www.dslreports.com/im/20022939/21526.png
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