How about getting a laptop and one of those aircards.
Users like you that abuse the phone data plan that bad is whats causing AT&T restricting us even more.
Im very surprised that they havent cancelled you or your friend for torrenting stuff over the iphone data plan.
Even though what kind of download and upload speed would you get and how many hours it would take to download videos or movies etc....
And then have to SSH every single file back to the home computer, its pointless IMO.
good to see you read my post before bashing me. Had you read it, you'd have gathered that I have NEVER DONE IT and was asking what the point of it was. If it was a practical way to watch a few TV shows then yeah, I would have DLed a couple. Show me one instance where I said I was going to download mass amounts of huge files? In fact, I specifically said I DONT want to do that. I used what my friend does as an example to the first person saying AT&T cancels the contract, I never said I did that too, nor did I say I condoned it, so again, read things before you attack people with your self-righteous POV.
The entire point of the thread was to ask what the POINT of torrents on a phone were, which has been determined there ISNT one as you'd have to ssh them to a computer, thus should just get them on a computer in the first place, which I SAID already in a previous post.
Also, to the people saying "get a laptop", I already said I have one, and to the people saying DL a bunch of stuff before I got, I already stated I wanted to watch a few TV show episodes that I miss while I am gone for a month, meaning the show airs when I'm travelling, thus I cannot get burn them/pit 'em on a laptop before I go, again, all of this has been stated by me already.
the reson I don't just bring a laptop is because I do a lot of surf travel on boat trips where space is sometimes limited and when you have a bunch of people crammed on a boat with about 40 surfboards and everyone elses personal belongings things get cramped quick. Most of the time there is no Internet access, and the boats usually have a DVD player so a laptop isn't necessary. I could DL a couple tv episodes in the airports between travel and watch 'em during downtime on my phone, which is always with me anyway, instead of bringing a laptop. That is ALL I asked about until everyone decided to play "100% law-abiding citizen" on me and act like "people like me ruin things for everyone".
Gimme a break, a few half hour tv episodes take up no more data usage than people using MXTube or iMobileCinema to download any and every video they find online, or the people using Installous to download every app they can just because they are getting something for free that they are supposed to pay for. Or people using tethering on their AT&T phones when AT&T doesn't support it, or the "3G Unrestrictor" program that let's you can use things like Skype over AT&Ts 3G instead of having to be on Wi-Fi like AT&T specifically wanted. Nobody is going and ruining those peoples threads when they ask a question though, yet it's the same exact thing, all of it is data usage that AT&T didn't intend for in their data plan. He'll, jailbreaking PERIOD isn't what Apple intended there phone for, hence all of those Cydia apps not being in the App Store, but most everyone in this forum has jailbroken their phones, so again, save the self-righteousness for something you aren't being hypocritcal towards.
Again, had everyone READ the posts (and comprehended them) you'd have seen I was asking what the point of torrents on the phone were, not bragging about abusing data or asking for advice on buying a laptop/loading one up with stuff before a trip. People come to places like this to ask a question with the hope that people on the boards with a little more knowledge than they have can help them but when everyone starts slamming people it makespeople not even want to ask questions.
