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Originally Posted by Cave Johnson
Mashup and iStream are great, but I'm having buffering issues with both. Is Furk better in that department?
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Heh... yeah, much better. Furk has the speed of a Newsgroup site. It's literally a server farm with unlimited bandwidth. So you'll only be limited by your own ISP as far as speed goes. Everything I download and stream from Furk goes at my max ISP speed. I've never actually seen Furk buffer for more than a few seconds, and since I got Google Fiber it's never buffered once.
Furk is really incredible, in my opinion. Not just for XBMC either. You can also use it on your computer for downloading anything you need. If what you're looking for can be found on any available torrent site, Furk will be able to play it. For video files, you can stream them directly from Furk in your computer's web browser too. So you can watch it from XBMC on any device, or do the same from any web browser.
Furk is a torrent aggregator. You type in what you want, and if it's not already on Furk's servers, it will scour torrent sites for it, and copy it to Furk's server and notify you when it's ready. But nearly everything I want is already on Furk's server. If any other Furk member has previously requested the file(s), it will be available as a cached copy instantly. So anything remotely popular will be there waiting already.
Not sure if that makes sense or not. But when you see it in action, it's very impressive.