Torrent Usage Poll

[Jingthing]

Just curious about usage patterns.

Decided not to get technical about this as far as upload/download statistics per day and also not asking about what kinds of torrents.

[bangkokrick]

I voted 'occasionally'. I down loaded 2 torrents yesterday and that was the first time in a month.

[Pib]

I expect the great majority of responses/votes will only be from torrent users of some degree. Most others who don't use torrents or know little to nothing about them will just skip over this topic.

[astral]

Somethng running every night, during my un-capped time,

plus a seedbox to keep the ratios up.

[TheWalkingMan]

For me it depends mostly on the US television season. At most I will run 7/8 torrents per week for US tv shows. Most of the shows I like are on break until the new season, so maybe I will download something once or twice a week.

TheWalkingMan

[seatimes]

i use eztv.it amongst others

some great bbc stuff on now

top gear is back as well

[Daffy D]

I use Torrents every day

Now that we only have local channels on our TV, I download UK TV programs during the day to watch in the evenings.

[TheWalkingMan]

One more thing, once you become accustomed to watching downloads with the commercials cut, you will go crazy when watching a full US broadcast of an hour show. A one hour episode is actually about 41-42 minutes of show and 18-19 minutes of commercials. Last week I watched a stream of a US channel and it drove me nuts with a commercial break every 7-8 minutes. That cannot be good for the attention span.

TheWalkingMan

[tominbkk]

I don't have True Cable TV anymore.....I pick and choose what I want to watch, by going to EZTV.

[DTiger]

One more thing, once you become accustomed to watching downloads with the commercials cut, you will go crazy when watching a full US broadcast of an hour show. A one hour episode is actually about 41-42 minutes of show and 18-19 minutes of commercials. Last week I watched a stream of a US channel and it drove me nuts with a commercial break every 7-8 minutes. That cannot be good for the attention span.

TheWalkingMan

Sooooo true Torrents are running most of the time to watch running series or 1/2 years old movies WITHOUT commercial!!!!

[urandom]

$ ls -l .config/rtorrent/session/ | wc -l

290