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Amazon Prime Video
From: Manthorp
24 Aug 2020 07:30
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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I din't have Prime, but I do have Netflix and they're really throttling stuff atm.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
24 Aug 2020 11:45
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Our free (through the library; we get 16 movies a month) streaming service Kanopy gets choppy during prime time.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
24 Aug 2020 11:50
To: Manthorp
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I assumed it was throttling by Amazon plus increased demands on their servers. Surprised by how bad it is though. They are a major supplier of cloud storage so I wouldn't have expected their servers to be quite so stretched. Trying to watch the Man in the High Castle and it freezes every few minutes while the annoying circle icon rotates. I suppose it might also be Virgin Media having bandwidth issues on its cable internet service.
From: ANT_THOMAS
24 Aug 2020 19:18
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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Speak to Jim.
I always forget I have Prime Video. I should make more use of it.
From: milko
24 Aug 2020 23:21
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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I’ve not used it much lately but it was ok during last week I think.
From: graphitone
25 Aug 2020 16:37
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Where does one ask Jim nowadays? I've not really used anything since the demise of
bit-torrent
btjunkie ages back.
EDITED: 25 Aug 2020 16:39 by GRAPHITONE
From: Manthorp
25 Aug 2020 17:30
To: graphitone
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Piratebay has gone to hell in a handcart, so I usually use limetorrents through Tor, with BT4G to mop up obscurities,
From: ANT_THOMAS
25 Aug 2020 17:30
To: graphitone
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They're generally all laced with popups and ads these days.
I tend to use magnet dl (which doesn't have popups and isn't banned on Sky or VM yet).
rarbg on a VPN
From: graphitone
26 Aug 2020 11:46
To: ANT_THOMAS
Manthorp
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So, a personal VPN is recommended for such shenanigans then?
From: ANT_THOMAS
26 Aug 2020 17:30
To: graphitone
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To grab the torrent/magnet? Yeah, loads of torrent sites are blocked. Or just use TOR browser as Manthorp mentioned.
To download the actual content? Your choice, I never have and I'm yet to end up in jail on piracy charges.