16th November 2005, 12:55 PM
Sorry, but when I get something in general I want it pretty quick. I might as well have waited for the actual game to come out. Just because I can go and do something else while waiting doesn't mean it's not annoying. And, the entire time I'm downloading it, I can't interrupt the download. So, perhaps I have some processor intensive process such as calculating Pi or something, I can't run it optimally with that thing there taking up just a smidgen of speed. Further, I can't exactly shut off my computer. Sure it will wait for me, but that whole time I'm no longer downloading anything, plus when I turn it back on, I will be lucky to find a so called "seed" within an hour. By the time I get the file, I may have already seen it on some other game site.
The entire reason I got broadband is so I DON'T have to wait for days. If the "well you can do something else" argument was to have any validity, I would have just stuck with narrowband.
Sorry, that doesn't solve my problem. That's just a way for me to ignore it.
Edit: Darunia, there are three options. The first is that both of those programs run off the same network and that network is down for whatever reason you might imagine. The second is you have just had some bad luck and all the songs you've been looking for lately have been on some very limited or maxed connections. The third is you broke your own computer without realizing it. The third is a LOT more likely than the lay person cares to admit to themselves. You must consider that some random "harmless" application you downloaded, possibly to see what the tempurature outside is at any given time, is what screwed it up.
To narrow down these possibilities, I would suggest trying to download on another computer and then gauging the results.
The entire reason I got broadband is so I DON'T have to wait for days. If the "well you can do something else" argument was to have any validity, I would have just stuck with narrowband.
Sorry, that doesn't solve my problem. That's just a way for me to ignore it.
Edit: Darunia, there are three options. The first is that both of those programs run off the same network and that network is down for whatever reason you might imagine. The second is you have just had some bad luck and all the songs you've been looking for lately have been on some very limited or maxed connections. The third is you broke your own computer without realizing it. The third is a LOT more likely than the lay person cares to admit to themselves. You must consider that some random "harmless" application you downloaded, possibly to see what the tempurature outside is at any given time, is what screwed it up.
To narrow down these possibilities, I would suggest trying to download on another computer and then gauging the results.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)