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by DEADBEEF
December 4th, 2011, 6:08 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Auto chmod temporary files.
Replies: 1
Views: 1592

Auto chmod temporary files.

I quite often like to stream/watch movies off my NAS whilst downloading them. VLC can play media directly out of multipart .rar files without extracting them first (even incomplete ones), but the default file permissions for temporary files is 600, meaning my HTPC has no permission to play them. I'm...
by DEADBEEF
March 2nd, 2011, 12:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HOWTO: Improve your DL Speed
Replies: 11
Views: 15442

Re: HOWTO: Improve your DL Speed

Ok, I just had a play around with this yesterday and it was pretty simple to set up. Here's a complete Windows/linux tutorial from start to finish..... How to set up usenet downloading over multiple WAN connections for ludicrous speed downloading. What you need: A usenet account (duh), preferably on...
by DEADBEEF
March 2nd, 2011, 12:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: SABnzbd download speeds
Replies: 4
Views: 4587

Re: SABnzbd download speeds

Google calculator is pretty handy for things like this...

15 Mbps = 1.87500 megabytes / second

Minus packet overhead and yes, 1.5MB/s sounds about right.
by DEADBEEF
March 1st, 2011, 10:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: HOWTO: Improve your DL Speed
Replies: 11
Views: 15442

Re: HOWTO: Improve your DL Speed

This idea is pretty intriguing as I have multiple WAN connections available and been after a way to combine their available bandwidth without going down the bonded ADSL route (which isn't available on my exchange) Surely though, rather than paying for two separate usenet providers you can just use s...