Re: sky by broadband.. yeah right :(


> I too installed Sky by Broadband; then promptly removed it again!
>
> If you close all applications on your PC, and run a "netstat" from the
> command prompt, you'll see that all is normal; you then start up
> SkyByBroadband, and set it to download a movie, then re-run "netstat",
> and you'll see that you've got lots of connection (on port 8080) to
> various ADSL or Blueyonder or NTL lines.
>
> SkyByBroadband appears to be exactly what it says; it's by broadband -
> everyone else's broadband. It looks like it uses the same priniciples as
> the likes of Limewire, etc - basically your download speed is limited by
> everyone else's upload speed. Worse still, if someone wants a movie that
> you've got, your upload bandwidth is used up too!
>
> I may of course be wrong, but that's what it looks like to me; shame for
> all those people that pay per Mb or are limited on their bandwidth!
>
> Alan

I found a freeware program that lets you remove 'startup programs' and
stopped the kservice thing from starting up, ( it starts up anyway when
you run up the sky frontend ) that way if it really is a p2p thing
then it wont chew up my bandwidth unless I have it running ! Also the
DU meter did not seem to be showing a large amount of upload
bandwidth.. considering the speed that it downloads at when it's going,
I think many people will have inadvertantly installed this thing!! The
movies are reasonable quality for watching on my laptop, nice small
manageable files too !

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