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Originally Posted by pop80_uk
Thanks for the replies everyone! 
I sometimes download programs like AVG and windows updates, ive been told you can down load MP3 and movies from the net! But no one ever seems to know the URL of the site! 
Im not sure if my basic surfing warrents and extra £84 a year, suppose I could cancel my sky protection plan and upgrade instead! hmmmm.
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I appreciate having 750k when it comes to major security updates and the like, gets it all over with quickly. As has already been said, the jump from 56k to 512k was a huge one, as you're taking out the dial-up as well as the general slowness of downloads. I maintain an online family photo album, so 128k upload is very useful for me - is the 300k service still stuck with 64k up? That'd kill me now, so slooooowww....
As for downloading ripped movies and CDs from the 'net - you obviously aren't trying hard enough, I've just installed a BitTorrent client and am in the middle of downloading a very recent Hollywood blockbuster. (NB research purposes
only - I do not believe in this kind of theft-of-copyright and will be erasing the whole lot presently). Downloading the client, Googling for a 'torrent' file of the film I wanted and commencing the download took less than 10 minutes. It's all there if you really want it. And no, I'm not going to post any URLs.