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    Hi. My name is Nikki and I'm addicted to downloading.

    Things started out slowly. A song here, a movie there. Nothing serious. Then I found the K-Lite board and verified files, and my downloads started to climb. My bandwidth could no longer keep up with my downloading so I got and ULTRA high speed connection, to download more.

    This continued on for month, one filesharing app after another, K-Lite, Soulseek, BitTorrent, FTP, IRC... until, finally, I had filled up every hard drive I had on my network. 400 GB worth. I had to start burning it all... then I had a thought... why not just get bigger hard drives? So after burning literally hundreds of CD's, I bought more hard drives and added them to the network. All was going fine, until I found that I had filled those up too. The problem was, I had no more drive bays in any of my computers. But I found a solution to that too. I started buying external hard drives.

    Then the biggest roadblock of all. I had to move, and I couldn't take my ULTRA high speed connection with me. I had to slow down to 1mbps/128kbs... I was mortified. How would I ever cope? I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I started shaking uncontrollably. The first week after my move was the worst. I was left with no internet connection whatsoever, and the withdrawl was unbearable. How to cope...

    Two weeks later, I have started to calm down a bit having realized, I only have to put up with this for another month or so, and then I'll be moving to a new place, where 3mbps isn't just a dream, it's a reality. So now I just bide my time, waiting, watching, planning all my downloads carefully so as not to blow my bandwidth caps... until the day I'm free again.

    Thank you for listening.

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    Now evry 1 lets thank Nikki for sharing her experience..and give her a round of applause.......

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    I might be able to give you something to take your mind off of downloading....

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    Originally posted by RPerry@1 August 2003 - 10:29
    I might be able to give you something to take your mind off of downloading....
    I know... the weekend you were here, I don't think I downloaded anythi.... wait... what's your definition of dowloading?

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    I can only suggest you delete all p2p software and see how you cope.

    Maybe go and buy the odd movie from a shop.

    If the syptoms persist I recommend seeing a shrink a.s.a.p

    Formatting of all hard drives is a must.

    Take care.

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    Originally posted by NikkiD@1 August 2003 - 10:31
    I know... the weekend you were here, I don't think I downloaded anythi.... wait... what's your definition of dowloading?
    couldn't that be considered uploading?? guess depends on which one of us is talking...

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    Can I move in with you for a bit ?

    I really would like to experience that 3mbps connection.
    Honest :-"
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    Hi, my name is DLingEverything
    (everyone says "hi dlingeverything")

    And i have trouble with, well....
    Dling Everything!

    Once, my computer messed up and i couldnt
    get on the internet for 3 WEEKS. :'(

    Everyday when I got home and turned the comp on,
    all my filesharing clients would popup and tell me they couldnt
    connect. I sadly weeeped for each of them. :'(
    I couldnt do ANYTHING, I was so bored that i had to actually
    do some WORK at home! :'(

    What's worse: I couldnt access the K-lite Board!!!!
    I missed all the people there (especially NikkiD )
    And I even missed all those Spam and Flame Topics!!!

    It felt like dieing, I couldnt breathe, I was trapped in my
    own prison!! :'(




    But now I have my comp fixed and everything is fine!!


    What have I learned from this?
    If all else fails, REFORMAT AND REINSTALL

    DL

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    Originally posted by dlingeverything@1 August 2003 - 17:09
    Once, my computer messed up and i couldnt
    get on the internet for 3 WEEKS. :'(
    We know.
    't Was a great time at the forum back then.



    /me bad. Me knows. Me don't care.

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