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[Solid Fro]

I always go for 192Kbs. I'm not sure why people download 128, the quality is terrible. If you go higher than 192, you're just wasting hard drive space because the quality difference between 192 and a higher rate is negligible.

 

[Sage]

I connect every single time at 26.4K. w00t.

The really sad thing is that I download a heapful of stuff with it... I think I spend more time waiting on my Internet connection than I do sleeping.

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by Viper Zero
If you go higher than 192, you're just wasting hard drive space because the quality difference between 192 and a higher rate is negligible.

That's for MP3's. .Wavs are easy to distinguish. And if you think that's a lie, artists can tell the difference between their recorded copy of their music and their distributed(CD)quality. So yeah, I'd say go for the highest up. You can always burn CD's....

 

[DGB454]

Originally posted by youth_cycler
I connect every single time at 26.4K. w00t.

The really sad thing is that I download a heapful of stuff with it... I think I spend more time waiting on my Internet connection than I do sleeping.

No other #'s available in your area? I use to have 6 different dial up #'s about 3 months ago but AOL cut them down to 2. I think they are pushing their broadband service so they are cutting out #'s to force people to get it. The bad thing is that it's not offered here. Even if it was I'd go with someone else.

 

[Joey]

i don't think i've ever broken 30kbps.
never.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Originally posted by Viper Zero
I always go for 192Kbs. I'm not sure why people download 128, the quality is terrible. If you go higher than 192, you're just wasting hard drive space because the quality difference between 192 and a higher rate is negligible.

I can tell the difference between 192 and 320 bitrate. I rip all my MP3s at 320. Anything else is unacceptable.

 

[space]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
I can tell the difference between 192 and 320 bitrate. I rip all my MP3s at 320. Anything else is unacceptable.

You should give LAME VBR a try, that's was i use.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Will do.

 

[RVDNuT374]

How about this for cable? I downloaded a 328 MB file in only 38:30. I don't have the best cable connection to begin w/ however.

 

[milefile]

Cable here, even though it's a total rip off in my area (maybe everywhere). I get post traumatic stress syndrome symptoms when I hear a modem dialing out

 

[Red Eye Racer]

I'll log-onto the secondary phone # in my dial-up listing if I anticipate that it might be a peak hour.

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by RVDNuT374
How about this for cable? I downloaded a 328 MB file in only 38:30. I don't have the best cable connection to begin w/ however.

I got Office Space(around 500MB DivX) in about 40 minutes.... But I also own the DVD, so is it stealing?>

 

[1X83Z]

Everybody says that Broadband is so much better, but when doing a simple task like browsing sites like this (which is about all I demand from the Web), the difference isn't too noticeable.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Originally posted by rjensen11
I got Office Space(around 500MB DivX) in about 40 minutes.... But I also own the DVD, so is it stealing?>

No, it's just dumb. Why would you download it if you already own the DVD? If you have the DVD handy you can rip it to your computer in DivX format and most likely have a better quality version than the one you downloaded.

Unless of course your DVD is scratched up or something.

 

[sn00pie]

That's like breaking into your own house.

 

[Klostrophobic]

True.

 

[sn00pie]

Yeah.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Wow, deep.

 

[rjensen11]

yeah, well, I downloaded it before I bought it. But I did eventually buy it! And it's also quicker to download it rather then spend 7 hours or so ripping it, compressing it, and all the stuff...

 

[Klostrophobic]

But the quality! The quality! THE QUALITY!

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by Klostrophobic
But the quality! The quality! THE QUALITY!

Hence why we have it on DVD...

 

[Klostrophobic]

Oh.

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by M5Power
Everybody says that Broadband is so much better, but when doing a simple task like browsing sites like this (which is about all I demand from the Web), the difference isn't too noticeable.

Yeah, web site browsing is fine, so long as you don't have a bloated browser and you don't disable the cache. I personally want cable though to increase download times-- that's where the big difference lies. I can download a 1 MB file in 5-7 minutes... cable users can do so usually in less than 10 seconds. Now you know why I told you that I don't download music.

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by youth_cycler
Now you know why I told you that I don't download music.

Hehehe, it would take you just as long to download some MP3 of a song as it would take me to download the .wav file of the same song, hehehe!