Poll: Do you think this guy on napster was lying about his connection? lol

[zippy]

This guy may possibly be lying...I dunno...

I can't decide if he is lying or not...



PS- I own the song I downloaded, I have it on CD.

 

[BigKev]

No...it seems pretty reasonable to me, LMFAO.

 

[Pretender]

I see that all the time. Who wants to waste their T1 bandwidth on some schmuck who wants a song? I don't even pay attention to line ratings anymore and just look at ping.

 

[Impact55]

Led Zeppelin?

 

[yakko]

I'm with Pretender. I have rated myself as a 14.4. I once downloaded 3 songs from a guy on "14.4" and had them in less than a minute.


Impact55,

sssshhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! He went through a lot or trouble to hide Stairway to Heaven.

 

[zippy]

yakko, Impact55, LOL! Yes, that is the song, whatever, it doesn't matter, I have it on CD, so if anyone wants to prosecute me, they can just jam my Led Zeppelin "Zoso" CD right up their ass.

 

[Stealth1024]

If you had the song on CD you wouldn't be settling for lower quality MP3 recordings, let alone wasting your time and bandwidth.

 

[Impact55]

.

 

[IBhacknU]

you really can't go by what people put on Napster

 

[RSI]

Who cares if they lie about their connection, they can say whatever they want... It doesn't really make much of a difference, considering you should just be choosing by how low the ping is and if the bitrate is sufficient, etc.

What is really annoying, is when spend 20-45 minutes downloading a song on 56K, and when it finally finishes, you notice that there are audio-glitches throughout the song, due to a low-quality ripper/encoder or an incomepetent user.

-RSI

 

[Swag1138]

RSI: What is really REALLY annoying is when you spend 30 mins downloading a song on 56 k only to have the guy on the other end cancel it at 98%

 

[yakko]

Swag1138,

So I guess you have connected to me before.hehehehe!!!!

 

[prodigy]

Go by ping, connection means jack!

 

[Eug]

When I was using Napster more I would often pick the 28.8 and less connections first. Basically nobody who Napsterizes is running 14.4 or 28.8, so when then they say that it's usually a dead giveaway that they're running DSL/cable/T1/T3.

Edit

<< If you had the song on CD you wouldn't be settling for lower quality MP3 recordings, let alone wasting your time and bandwidth. >>

MP3 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Since most of my friends listen to completely different music than I do, I use Napster to find new stuff I like. When I find it I go out and buy the CD. Then I encode the entire CD myself (usually VBR, highest settings). It's much easier taking 3 MP3 CD-Rs to work than hauling around 35 CDs. It will be nice when I get my MP3/CD portable player too, but good ones are kinda scarce around here. I already have an MP3/CD player for my stereo system. Sound quality is excellent.

 

[Imported]

I've had the same thing happen to me many times. I just list myself as Cable and people rarely d/l from me.

 

[ltk007]

I let people download from me. I have 100KB/s up and 300KB/s down, share the bandwidth with all the people I say

BTW I just set up an ftp, if you guys want access to it PM me

 

[zippy]

Stealth, au contrair, I do have it and this mp3 was 256KB/s. If you'd like I'll get the CD out and take another screen shot.

 

[Pretender]

I'm on ADSL, so I can only upload at 10K/s, and I don't download entire albums, only songs I want to put on CD mixes (I'm too lazy to dig out 10 different CDs, rip them, then re-burn them).

ltk: Is there anything good on the FTP?

 

[kuk]

nevermind

 

[DABANSHEE]

&quot;RSI: What is really REALLY annoying is when you spend 30 mins downloading a song on 56 k only to have the guy on the other end cancel it at 98%&quot;

Were you the one I did that to, Swag?

I do that to every single person who downloads files off me, who isn't sharing files in return, but I useally cut the connection at about 93%.

 

[kicken14]

LED ZEPPLIN STARIWAY TO HEAVEN LOL DAM IM GOod

 

[ratkil]

Hey, that must be the jerk that is stealing some of my bandwidth. That would explain why I am only getting .23 kbps with my 56.6 connection

 

[snow patrol]

Wish I could download that fast

 

[Cable God]

I see that quite a bit zippy Tricky bastages

 

[RSI]

&quot;RSI: What is really REALLY annoying is when you spend 30 mins downloading a song on 56 k only to have the guy on the other end cancel it at 98%&quot;

:| :| :|

That happens all the time, it sucks! But, at least when I double click on a song, it starts downloading. Here at my cousin's on cable, 90% of the time when you attempt to download a song, it doesn't !#$ing work!

-RSI