Comments on: Getting answers on Graboid issues

By: Blair

Blair — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:30:54 +0000

I have been reading a lot of the blogs in here and used it all ready, I have found nothing wrong at all, my downloads go at 185-195 at any giving time, I find that quit fast enough. If you can download a 700-800 mb file in 2-2 1/2 hours while doing other things on the pc, well to me thats pretty good, as for the downloads that stop at 99% for some of the people in here, I can’t say much on that, mine have never stopped- all goes well each time.
I have been working with computers now for over 20 years and have tired just about every kind of p2p programs for movies,video’s and software, while not at the top of my list, graboid does come close, Keep up the good work guys.

By: darren

darren — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:01:44 +0000

ok as with my earlier messages i decided to try graboid again first off 2 days ago i downloaded a file at 260mb it came down at 5650kbps witch is good for my connection anyway it got to 33mb with about 2 minutes remaining and stoped left it for half hour and still not downloaded ..so then i tried it again today i downloaded a file of 185 mb it came down really quick about 4 minutes untill it stoped at 99per cent done with only 1mb left if thats not taking the pi@@ what is graboid im getting peed off help

By: Art

Art — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:21:12 +0000

How can I gain bandwidth? It says I have no more? Does that mean that I cant watch videos with graboid anymore?

[moderator: The bandwidth applicable to your plan renews every month, on the anniversary of the date you signed up. You can get more bandwidth by upgrading to a higher plan, or renewing your current plan early (applies only to paid plans). Free accounts come with 4 GB of bandwidth per month.]

By: DR

DR — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:14:53 +0000

Hello Graboid,
Videos are downloading for me at the rate of anywhere between 4 - 20 kb/s, and all downloads seemingly take forever. Is this a problem with my internet connection, or is it something on your end? Do you know if there’s anything I can do about this problem?

[moderator: go to http://www.speedtest.net and see what your downstream speed is. If all you're getting is 20 kBps (bytes per second) on Graboid, then the rate speedtest gives you should be about 150 kbps (bits per second). That's about dialup modem speed. High speed internet will come in somewhere above 1 Mbps on speedtest. If you're somehow getting a speedtest result that's high > 1 Mbps and Graboid is still going slow, then there are probably other internet-accessing apps running on your PC at the same time.]

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:12:22 +0000

I want to help many who are having movie shut down issues. I know this seems to be a common problem, with movies literally shutting down right in the middle, with the media player showing up empty. Let me shed some light on the problem. I had my computer settings such that the moniter would turn off its display after 30 minutes or so, and had it falling to sleep at the same time. I had no idea this was the problem, but when turned those features off, the movies ran all the way through without any issues at all. Seems the computer doesn’t actually fall to sleep, nor does the screen turn off, but if it did, I would have realized this to be my problem much sooner. Because there is in fact an application (graboid) running in the background, the computer behaves in an odd way. I believe the computer attempts to fall asleep, but is unable because of the movie application running. As a result, there is no way one can discern what the problem is, and why the movies keep shutting down. Then I thought to myself, why have I been able to watch other movies all the way through? Well obviously I was fussing with the mouse and minimizing and running other things in the background, keeping the sleeping mechanism at bay.

I do hope this helps, but we all must understand this media player is very touchy, and the slightest things which we may never think of can interfere.

By: DR

DR — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:16:45 +0000

I just wanted clarification on something: after I use up my alloted brandwidth for the month (i’m on a free account), do I start over at the beginning of the next calendar month, or one month after I joined?

[moderator: It is one month after you join.]

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:31:34 +0000

Have found Graboid support to be excellent.

To switch subjects, in todays market where required “bandwidth” is uneconomical, I wonder where this type of service is going? where will it end up? $40./mth useful bandwidth (not how Graboid uses the word “bandwidth”) + Graboid’s $12-25.oo/mth fee buys/rents MANY DVDs. And all are, in Comcast’s words: “on demand”. (I am not a FiOS or cable subscriber - does NOT make sense.)

By: rob

rob — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:39:48 +0000

everyone i know has the streaming issue. graboid lists our speeds at 500kbps or better. I am a platinum member till the end of the month. someday this may be worth paying for, but as of now we are all beta testers. I have tried other programs and it is true in theory that this program has the widest streaming selection but there are too many cam rips(with thumbs up), incomplete movies, moves in the wrong language, and files full of errors. I am very disappointed. my money would have given me more value as toilet paper.
this is not how you run a buisness folks. perhaps you folks should spend some of that wasted cash on finding out how netflix can do perfect streaming movies without any waiting.
thanks for nothing

By: MAGNIFICO

MAGNIFICO — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:13:50 +0000

well i think the search … could b much better .. I dont know if u ever went to demonoid.com …
but i think u should b able to pick the language of what ur looking for … theres only like 6 languages of i see most of the time … cattegory….. maybe a year catertory like 07 then 04-06 etc ….

By: Roth

Roth — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:03:46 +0000

So are you guys going to explain what that whole server issue was about? Should we expect this? And i’d like to see a poll stating whether people have issues with streaming videos (constant stoppages, and then video would continue fine as normal because i get that too)…. that might prove if this is either an isolated incident or something on graboid’s end.

[moderator: Our database server ran out of disk space, causing most connection attempts to fail -- unfortunately, we weren't even able to post a status update on the blog because of the problem, but all has returned to normal now. Tomorrow, we are doubling our database server capacity to support twice as many concurrent connections, and we've solved the drive space issue, so (we hope) this will drastically, if not eliminate downtime. As Graboid is experiencing extremely rapid growth, we thank you for your patience and understanding.]