Just curious. Any UK Amazon Prime video users experiencing really shit reception recently? I know they've reduced bandwidth on the 4K service while people are using streaming more, but trying to watch things lately I get constant buffering and errors. That's with a steady 200+ mbit internet service. I know my TV's SOC is only allowing half that, but according to the Netflix speed check thingy, it actually gets around 100 mbits which is more than plenty.
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.
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
Silly not to, really. Especially as they're not expensive. I use NordVPN which is cheap and simple. They have double VPN (connect via two anonymous servers) if you're feeling especially shy. They do an Onion connection as well but I've never got it to work. I use it for all trips to see Jim even for usenet which somewhat safer than torrenting.
As for what Ant says: yeah, up to you and it's probably low risk. In my case, I'm a bit stuck for decent internet connections (although CityFibre are about to stick a gigabit connection outside my house) as it's either a high speed Virgin cable or a shitty 6-7 Mbit phone thing. So I don't want to upset Virgin with loads of dodgy torrenting (that they can see).
