salaama wrote:

NoNeedToKnow

Thanks for your comments. The point I was trying to make, was to make
people suffering poor bandwidth speeds aware that it might be because
of the Sky By Broadband service(downloading in the background) that is
causing the slow speeds. I was not advising as to the best times to
download as you are right, obviousley, the best time to download large
files (movies) is during the night.

The other point you made; "Once the movie is on your PC/box (sorry,
don't have Sky services so don't know which thing actually holds the
downloaded movies) then it will not be a regular problem, as it won't
be downloaded again and again, will it?"

Movies are downloaded to where you specify, for example I have
speceified my Sky By Broadband to download onto my Desktop. I then cut
and paste the movies to wherever. Once the Sky By Broadband can no
longer detect the movies on my desktop, it begins downloading them
again, which is why I said the only way to actually delete a movie
request to Sky By Broadband is by logging into the software and
deleting it from there.




NoNeedToKnow wrote:
On 13 Oct 2006, "salaama" wrote:

1) Have you subscribed to 'Sky By Broadband'? If yes, what Sky By
Broadband does is it downloads the movies you have requested everytime
you go on the internet. You DO NOT have to be logged in to Sky By
Broadband to download movies, once you go online it automatically
begins downloading the movies at super speeds taking up a lot of your
bandwidth. The only way to stop this is by logging into Sky By
Broadband and deleting the movies. If you delete the movies directly
from your hard drive, Sky By Broadband begins to download them again,
so, the only way to actually delete the movies is by logging into the
Sky By Broadband software and deleting it from there.

OK, so it downloads at full pelt, but surely if you know this you can
add a new movie at night and let it download overnight, rather than
add in the morning and "suffer" low speeds. Once the movie is on
your PC/box (sorry, don't have Sky services so don't know which
thing actually holds the downloaded movies) then it will not be a
regular problem, as it won't be downloaded again and again, will it?

Does this fix method apply to if you don't subsrcibe to Sky by
broadband?
I have been told that it also may involve fixing it to 801g not g/b as
it drops to b if it gets any interference.