Neko-fish Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 I voted "torrents" ...but I did wish we could have voted for both ....I like the idea of having the choice of either using a torrent or a host to download from ....that way if either one has troubles..you can fall back on the other downloading option.... but ...I believe that in the future ..it will be private FTP's that will become the favoured option as home networks become more and more powerful....but rthen ...the future IS just that .."The Future" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleachzzz Posted March 15, 2013 Report Share Posted March 15, 2013 I voted for torrent because of the speed and it's free if the side starts torrenting I'll seed each file for a week, I get 120+ upload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonal Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 I can always feel good about living out in the country since it fits my way of life so well... but every once and a while when I see people that have these unimaginable internet connections to me, I do sometimes wonder what it would be like!! There is exactly one choice for internet here that isn't massively capped and that's AT&T DSL 6mbps about 750-800kb/s down and 50kb/s or so up, with a 150gb limit a month to top it all off... I just love AT&T... I'm being a bit sarcastic here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowburden Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Yeah, even though most likely you are already uploading torrents because of the majority. But I'll still state this anyway. All in all, I prefer IRC downloading, mainly because not many files get removed or however it works (don't really know much about IRC). File Hosting I would prefer over Torrents, I do torrent, but only specific things, which isn't TV/Movies at all. I avoid it as much as possible because of governments tracking downloaders (they especially try to track uploaders), which can happen, but not even close as it does with Uploaders. When you are an Uploader to torrents you will always risk yourself from getting caught, and if it's a TON of copyright content, well we all know how far that will go... Not only that, but for a torrent perspective, you have to worry about seeders, if there isn't much, then it takes forever... or if there is any at all in the first place. For me, torrents aren't worth it, because of getting caught, and the issue with seeders and such. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ONESHOTFilms Posted July 16, 2013 Report Share Posted July 16, 2013 a well seeded torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wooden Posted August 19, 2013 Report Share Posted August 19, 2013 i would prefer hoster over torrents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFRemedy Posted September 15, 2013 Report Share Posted September 15, 2013 Prefer Torrents over file hosting sites. Speed is better and sometimes if my internet is acting up, i may disconnect from file hosters and have to restart my DL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IllogicalGlory Posted September 15, 2013 Report Share Posted September 15, 2013 Hosters are always better. With torrents you can never tell when your file is going to download and for me, they are always slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Posted September 21, 2013 Report Share Posted September 21, 2013 Hosters are always better. With torrents you can never tell when your file is going to download and for me, they are always slower. Use zbigz. They are an online service that downloads torrents at rediculously high speeds and keeps them there for you to download as if hosted. But you get only 60kBps download from them. (which I find barable since 3rd world internet is 110kBps) Anyway, it's difficult to say. A well seeded torrent is very fast, nearly unbreakable (a BIG pluspoint), and if a torrent is well seeded you will barely upload while downloading (I don't seed cause in the 3rd world internet is still super expensive and you pay per megabyte). However, they have very short life spans, like a month only. Public torrents are fine, cause 3rd world countries aren't worth copywriters' efforts. Hosted files can be slow and break often. If they survive for more than, say, 3 days, it'll be up for months or years before dying. Personally I download mainly hosted files cause it's easier to get episodes for 50-100MB ea rather than 250-400MB HD files. So I can download more and faster. I voted for torrents though. IRC are nice, but outdated. There are better alternatives out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stigler Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Torrents of course, filehosts are for the most case a pain in the ass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7Sins Posted December 16, 2013 Report Share Posted December 16, 2013 Voted for hosters!torrents are pain when downloading and most of the files that was downloaded from torrents has viruses! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid103 Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 i prefer torrent because my internet gets interrupted so i can't download anything directly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabit911 Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Fine with both I like host better though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† Valdearg Posted February 2, 2014 Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Voted torrents as I've had some run at 56MB/s. There are too many shitty expensive filehosts that will delete your files randomly. But IRC is also a great alternative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slick1109 Posted February 10, 2014 Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 I do NOT and can NOT download torrents, so my answer is simple ............ filehosters. The real question is which are the best ones to use. Rapidgator and Uploaded are TERRIBLE in my opinion (for free users that is), but they are very popular. I find Sockshare and Putlocker to be much better choices as they allow large file sizes, unlimited downloads, and 99% of the time No Captcha. Mediafire is also a good choice, and I find that Zippyshare seems to take their time responding to take-down notices, so files stay alive longer than other hosts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king913 Posted February 10, 2014 Report Share Posted February 10, 2014 I prefer both of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodie Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 personaly i prefer hosts; as they are usually faster and more reliable. admittedly though they are prone to being taken down quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
professa X Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Either torrents or Orc due to connection getting interrupted however I have used filehosts it's just the cap and possible redownloading that bugs me. I didn't know I could get tracked through my torrent client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajeet4u2007 Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariescott Posted February 28, 2014 Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 I use the mobile hotspot on my phone for internet access and I have a limited amount before it converts to 3G and I can't download anything. I find that hosters are better because I download stuff at work and I can't use torrents there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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