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Oh it was a content question, not a size question

I just went to my stock "how do you download so much regardless of content" answer

In case people are interested, this seems incredibly good value!

http://www.hitnews.com/index.php?group=2

Nighttime accounts

- Full speed download (up to 120 mbit) at a minimum price!
- Monday through Friday from 12AM - 4PM CET
- Saturday and sunday from 12AM - 10AM CET
- Outside these hours you can download at 1 mbit

€ 4,75 for 1 month € 52,50 for 12 months

Do you spend your entire life watching tv?

I'm the same. Due to fast internet, unlimited downloads and automation, I now have a hard drive full of stuff I haven't watched. We maybe have the time for 1 or 2 episodes of something a night before we fall asleep and sometimes a movie.

#firstworldproblems

I watch probably an hour or two a night.

Why do I keep downloading new TV shows? I honestly have no idea

However you have to remember that if you didnt pirate them the studios would be rolling in all the extra money you would be handing over to legitimatly aquire them !

I have discovered Couch Potato. Oh my.

Well that took you a while.

Sickbeard has become such a vital part of my media set up, I honestly don't remember how I coped without it. Genius idea.

I could not get it working.

I'm trying to do this, but my Giganews conformation email hasn't turned up

That doesn't even slightly work on Mountain Lion for me. Annoying.

Strange, running fine here. Although I did install in on Lion and then upgrade to ML.

Okay, so I think I've got most stuff set up, but I didn't understand this bit of the instructions from http://www.sickbeard.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10:



My categories page looks like this:


So, er..?

There should be a scripts option there too. Odd. Give me a minute.

Have you set a scripts folder under folders?

I just saw that - no. I'll do it now.

Let me know next time you need help following an ordered list of simple instructions.

Now! What do I choose for processing, folder path and group/indexer tags?

Heh.

Default, blank, blank. If you want to do any auto sorting of different types of downloads into different locations, you can fuck about with that later.

Ta!

Also, Sick Beard seems to be working and has found all my existing folders and shows me how many episodes I'm missing, etc.

I was lead to believe it would rename all my existing files, though. Is this FILTHY LIES, or have I missed a tick box somewhere?

[edit]Also, it doesn't seem to be adding missing stuff to the download thingamabob. I DECREE THIS RUBBISH! Until I get it working, obv.

Dunno - never tried to have it do anything clever with existing files. You might want to try hitting the 'manual post-processing' link and pointing it at the folder with your files in.

It sets missing episodes for a downloaded show to 'skipped' by default rather than 'wanted'. You can change that setting somewhere.

Go to Manage->Episode Status Management and you can bulk set skipped episodes to wanted by series.

Aha, it appears to be working.
Now to see what it does with a file when it has downloaded it.

Aha - you just click on the show name in your home screen and then click 'Rename Episodes'.

Okay, it's all set up and working. Thanks for the help!

Also - I get it now. Oh.

Imma gonna need more hard drives.

Right?

I've been downloading TV shows just because since I got off my arse getting this working. It's too easy.

My searches have come up with a few holes in some shows. So I've manually searched and found NZBs for a whole season at once, bypassing Sickbeard and doing it myself. Sickbeard still goes in, process and sorts them for me. Amaze.

It's a thing of beauty.

Where do you find them?

NZBMatrix.

nzbsrus.com or nzbmatrix.com are the ones I use. Have to pay to sign up, but it's a one-off. You can then add them to the search providers in sickbeard, improving the hit rate.

How much is nzbmatrix.com ? I can't find any information on pricing.

http://nzbmatrix.com/subscription.php — £7, one-off.

I fear this is going to make Vigin sad.

For reference, here is my usage before all this started:
I've reset it now - let's see what it is in seven days.

39 Terabytes in 18 days? I think Virgin is already quite sad.

Can Giganews max your line out, Grim...?

Prolly


If the number at the top of the Sabnzbd home sceen is accurate, then not even close - it's only doing 1.5MB/s.

Did you tell sabnzbd to use 50 connections to Giganews?

Yes, but I think Virgin are being mean. I switched to SSL on a different port and it's up to 6.1MB/s now. I'm installing the Accelerator, too - see if that makes a difference.

Should I be using news-europe.giganews.com rather than news.giganews.com? I suspect I should.

Yes.

I usually set the US one as a backup.

39TB in 18 days?

I do about 1TB per fucking year.

I don't have much of a clue what's using it, either

So, are you guys the downloading equivalent of TheVision? How the fuck can you watch 39TB (not Tb, WTB) in 18 days? Do you just stick all this on your virtual shelf, never to be watched?

Virgin shape NG traffic, before I got Infinity I used to have a laptop in my mates house and used his Virgin 100MB on a weekend.

The speed bounced about all over the place, the best result I got (using Astraweb) was port 8080 which maxed it out, after a while this setting woudn't even work.



What sort of speed are you on? I get 7.6mbps from my Infinity and can get 30GB an hour so 720GB per day, I would need 3 times this speend to get 39TB in 18 days!

Also what do you store it on? I have spent a bomb on NAS storage and I couldn't store 39TB, maybe 80% of that

I can max out my 60meg virgin connection and I've never seen it shaped yet.