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So my question is now; how to download "obscure" content at a reasonable download rate?

Private trackers.

Edit: Warning - steep learning curve ahead.

How to..." explaining the whole " non-standard port and force encryption" thing

http://www.softblogger.net/speed-up-utorrent/

Also see 2. here: https://www.utorrent.com/help/guides/connection-setup

Share ratio is most likely irrelevant since, due to the OP's obvious noobness in this area, it's a fairly safe bet he's using public trackers.

The problem probably lies with his ISP. Use a non-standard port and force encryption. Google is your daddy etc.

http://www.mhotspot.com/

If new, the Apple Store online is definitely the way to go. Refurbished, I would go with Lazada as already mentioned. As I posted in another thread, I got a factory refurb 32GB white 4S from them the other day.

It was delievered 2 days later to my door by courier. Was literally as good as new and factory unlocked. Real bargain at around 11,000 baht when you consider they are 15,000 from the Apple Store for an 8GB.

If it 'sounds easy,' why don't you go ahead and try it?

Try this: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Unless you're familiar with the command line, setting up OpenVPN on a server is going to be fairly challenging (assuming it's unmanaged).

I wouldn't put House of Cards or Homeland ( I would put them in Tier 2 below) in the same league as Breaking Bad (solid Tier 1 show). Here's my list:

Tier 1:

The Wire

The Sopranos

Deadwood

Six Feet Under

Mad Men

Treme

Twin Peaks

The Shield

Justified

Tier 2:

Boardwalk Empire

Carnivale

24

Lost

Orange is the New Black (still first season, definitely has Tier 1 potential)

Rectify (still first season, definitely has Tier 1 potential)

Les Revenants

Weeds

Oz

Terriers (stupidly cancelled after one season)

Louie

Comedy:

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Arrested Development

Eastbound and Down

Mr Show

Community

30 Rock

Parks & Rec

Edit: Knew I'd forget something, I'm sure there's others - GoT obviously and True Detective. Both Tier 1 for me.

what about for people that have other stuff to do and cant be arsed to ride a new learning curve?

They can continue to sit on the couch being fat and stupid.

I just got a good deal for one on Lazada. 11,750 baht for a White 4S 32GB (factory refurbished). Cash on delivery. Try there.

My experience was the reverse. I bought a MBP late last year because I liked the hardware. The intention was to shrink the OSX partition right down since I had no intention of using it, and install Windows on the main partition. After trying OSX for a few days I found I much preferred it and Windows now sits virtually unused on a 60GB partition (out of a total 512GB SSD).

I'm no noob. I'm a hardcore Windows user since 3.1 (DOS before that) right up to Windows 7, and I often use the command line (Windows on a PC and Linux on a dedicated server). For me the Mac OS is simply better.

No disrespect intended, but your contention that "Your [sic] just too limited and treated like a child" is frankly nonsense. Just because the OS is forgiving on grandma and the clueless doesn't mean the power isn't there in spades for people that know how to properly utilise it.

I am not sure if these came from broadcast rips or DVDs.

They would have been ripped from the DVD or Bluray

It looks like Season 4 premiers here on HBO/Thailand on Sunday, April 13, 2014, with (presumably Thai subs), so expect local trackers to have it within a day or two?

Because of the crazed prudishness of HBO in Thailand (and Asia generally), this version is likely to be heavily edited. If a sub file is produced from this version, it won't sync with the version on western trackers, since this has been capped from HBO in the US (unless someone re-syncs it and adds the missing bits, which is a pretty big job).

You could of course watch the crappy edited version if you're so inclined.

Edit: Just noticed you're also looking for versions with English subs. There are a couple around. You can PM for specifics if you're interested.

Downloading from the above url's can this be viewed on VLC?

Yes. I would go for the BTN internal encode (House.of.Cards.2013.S02.720p.NF.WEBRip.DD5.1.x264-NTb) which is the best quality out there.

Looks like it's back - http://www.demonoid.ph/

Just tried my old login and it's working.

Not sure what the details are: service provider? Pre-paid? Post-paid?

Take a look at the title of the thread and take a wild guess.

As a farang I cannot explain in Thai to stop this.

AIS have English speaking customer service. Give them a call.

I got an unlimited package a couple of weeks back - 799 THB + VAT for 13 GB and throttled to 384 KB/s after the 13 GBs are finished. Not sure if it's still available, it was a promotion, but it's probably worth asking for anyone that's thinking of renewing/changing their package.

It's all well and good reading articles about it, but there is no substitute for actually trying it out.

This. I dual boot my MBP with Win7. I only allocated 60GB on the SSD to windows because I hardly ever use it any more. Deleted the page file to free up some space on the windows partition and haven't had any problems whatsover (I do have 16GB of RAM on board).

The only way I have been able to make any use out of my True internet connection has been to use a VPN connection - to anywhere.

There seems to be two seperate (but probably related) issues with True at the moment:

1. Routing issues

2. Speed issues

The first can be solved with a VPN. The second cannot. I am still getting dial-up speed downloads on my 13/1 ADSL connection in BKK. It's a real pain.

Here's a traceroute to my server in France. Looks like a problem at the True gateway.

Traceroute has started…

traceroute to [Redacted] , 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.439 ms 1.397 ms 1.253 ms
2 10.169.223.234 (10.169.223.234) 24.897 ms
10.169.223.238 (10.169.223.238) 64.925 ms
10.169.223.182 (10.169.223.182) 25.085 ms
3 10.169.223.173 (10.169.223.173) 23.212 ms 22.214 ms 24.320 ms
4 te3-2-87.node254-43.mtg.net.trueinternet.co.th (119.46.176.149) 25.049 ms 21.923 ms 21.920 ms
5 61-91-210-50.static.asianet.co.th (61.91.210.50) 22.825 ms 24.118 ms 22.709 ms
6 61-91-213-36.static.asianet.co.th (61.91.213.36) 23.271 ms 22.822 ms 23.033 ms
7 61-91-213-130.static.asianet.co.th (61.91.213.130) 23.186 ms 26.082 ms 24.194 ms
8 tig-net242-41.trueintergateway.com (113.21.242.41) 27.791 ms 32.137 ms 31.778 ms
9 sg-icr-gs2-241-174.trueintergateway.com (113.21.241.174) 54.573 ms 55.820 ms 55.712 ms
10 tig-net245-34.trueintergateway.com (113.21.245.34) 255.740 ms 254.659 ms 255.204 ms
11 * amsix2.routers.ovh.net (195.69.145.245) 255.651 ms 270.678 ms
12 rbx-g2-a9.fr.eu (91.121.131.173) 262.342 ms 261.134 ms 260.834 ms
13 rbx-1-6k.fr.eu (91.121.131.13) 263.728 ms 262.522 ms *
14 rbx-54-m1.fr.eu (91.121.130.34) 261.140 ms 261.333 ms 264.646 ms
15 [Redacted] 249.843 ms 249.680 ms 253.308 ms

Something is broken at True. I'm getting dial-up speeds on downloads from my dedi in France. Would be getting around 1.3 MB/s usually. I'm in BKK.

Check the settings in Outgoing Mail Server. Make sure they're all correct. Try re-entering your password. Enter the password, don't copy and paste it.

Settings should look something like this:

Sever: On

Host Name: smtp.live.com

User Name: [your email address]

Password: [your password]

Use SSL: On

Authentication: Password

Server Port: 587

Try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox preferences.