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The real winner of the streaming wars.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

I was perfectly happy with streaming services for a couple years when there were only like 2 good ones. I stopped torrenting for a long time and now I'm back to torrenting again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Do you use a VPN? I downloaded a random movie a few years ago and got the email from my cable company stating something along the lines of "we recently notice a download of blah blah blah was detected on our network. Please call to re activate your Internet". So I called and told them "I just got my son a computer I didn't know you could download movies"

But laying for a VPN will cost as much as a streaming service and it's so slow. And I guarantee sooner or later VPNs won't even work in a few years (meaning your ip could be backtracked to the original computer)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

The best, most reputable VPN, Mullvad costs $5 USD. Plenty are cheaper than that if you pay in advance for a few years.

The cheapest streaming service will roughly double that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

When I had Mulkvad my speed test would go from about 335mbit to like 327mbit when connected to a somewhat close server.

Connected to servers across the ocean it'd be like 310.

They got a money-back guarantee if you don't pay with something completely anonymous like cash in the mail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Never ran a speedtest. Fast enough