Maybe you can shed some light on this matter: You say the bandwidth offered by R18 is too low. And you can only stream 2 movies at the same time. Now I'm a little bit confused.
I thought R18 is a streaming site. Means if you want to watch a movie your directly stream it from their site using their video player. So you just need enough bandwidth for being able to stream it without any glitches in the movie, right?
Or is there some kind of caching within the player software R18 uses? Means the movie is loaded to your computer and can be played after it was downloaded completely?
R18 offers several methods to watch movies (its not a streaming only site):
1) You can buy the movie - in this case you can watch via streaming or you can download the movie and watch it as long as you have an account with R18. (I think you can buy a movie for 7 days or so, in that case you have it only for 7 days)
2) You can subscribe to a channel and all the movies in this channel are 'yours', as long as you have subscribed the channel, which costs a monthly fee.
In general, if you 'have' a movie, either purchased or 'rented' via channel, you can select if you want to download it (and watch at your leisure on your computer) or if you want to watch it online via streaming. Downloaded movies need the R18 player and Internet connection to validate.
What I meant was, that usually (with a fast Internet connection) you can download 2 or even more movies at the same time. This is an advantage (provided you want more than one of course) since long routes are often a bit laggy, and two or more streams utilize your Internet connection better than one download. Also there are big movie downloads which come in two or more parts for one movie, which you will want to start simultaneously.
My complaint was, that I could start only one, maximum two downloads, then the site simply would stop to respond to more download requests, these timed out with no answer.
The downloads which worked were abysmally slow, around 100 KBytes/sec for each stream. My connection can download (tested!) usually with a maximum of 5 MBytes/sec.
Also streaming is quite laggy, you often have stops in the movie when data are not coming fast and continuous enough for uninterrupted play, this without any downloads at the same time. But on long routes this often is the case, and often even bigger buffers do not help. This is simply the Internet, and not the fault of R18. It makes it impossible to stream movies at a higher quality, since the streaming will lag several times every minute.
And to conclude my report: I do not have much time ATM, but I did a fast check and the movies are not only visible again, it is now again possible to stream them, so the system seems to be back to normal.
Edit: Typos and clarification.
