saul
12 years ago
7 months ago
11
Premium
Hi,

Is it possible to pay for Premiem Membership for a month rather than a year?

Thanks
Shedender
18 years ago
3 weeks ago
13,751
They're only yearly subscriptions I'm afraid, used to be able to do it monthly years ago.
saul
12 years ago
7 months ago
11
Premium
Is that definite, because I don't have £10 on my card right now and would quite like a one month sub to start off at least (for the 83p or whatever) so I can download, and hopefully use the website more in the future. It's near impossible downloading it in 20+ parts otherwise.
Poe
18 years ago
1 week ago
3,675
Sorry, we only offer yearly subscriptions at the minute.
Matthew92
17 years ago
3 weeks ago
4
Premium
How much difference is there in download speeds when on premium? im on virgin fibre optic on 30mb soon to be upgraded to 50 at no extra cost according to virgin.
Footygamer
18 years ago
6 hours ago
98,218
How much difference is there in download speeds when on premium? im on virgin fibre optic on 30mb soon to be upgraded to 50 at no extra cost according to virgin.

We can't say exactly it depends on how many other people are downloading and exactly which filesharing site you're using.

Also as far as i'm aware you rarely get all your 50Mb for one connection.

You also need to note the difference between bits and bytes. Virgin advertise their services in Bits and most browsers show download speeds in Bytes.

MB = megabytes
Mb = megabits
8Mb = 1MB
30Mb = 3.75MB

Your 30Mb/s download speed means the best you'll ever be able to see in your browser is 3750 KB/s (3.75MB/s).

I would expect to see at least 2000 KB/s (2 MB/s).
Matthew92
17 years ago
3 weeks ago
4
Premium
We can't say exactly it depends on how many other people are downloading and exactly which filesharing site you're using.

Also as far as i'm aware you rarely get all your 50Mb for one connection.

You also need to note the difference between bits and bytes. Virgin advertise their services in Bits and most browsers show download speeds in Bytes.

MB = megabytes
Mb = megabits
8Mb = 1MB
30Mb = 3.75MB

Your 30Mb/s download speed means the best you'll ever be able to see in your browser is 3750 KB/s (3.75MB/s).

I would expect to see at least 2000 KB/s (2 MB/s).


But it has to be faster than the free one surely?
Footygamer
18 years ago
6 hours ago
98,218
But it has to be faster than the free one surely?

Yes, I don't know what file you're looking at specifically, but something that has been uploaded to uploaded.net (for example) will get 50KB/s download speeds.

Premium membership should be around 40x faster than that (but no guarantee it will be as much as that), and if you manage to use all of your 30Mb connection it will be 75x faster.

Sorry if my answers are vague, I can't give you exact figures since it all depends on the time of the day, the country, the number of other people downloading, exactly how your internet connection is configured etc. I think if you download the cut out faces megapack via premium membership right now it should be 40-75 times faster than using the free mirrors.

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