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Do it before you travel ... While there is Internet everywhere in Asia - the connection speeds are - for the most part - very slow compared to North American or European speeds. You'll never get anything downloaded of that size in a 'cafe' without waiting for hours.4
There is a different issue here at play, much more important than the download speeds that #1,2,3 worry about.the Kindle Fire is currently only available in the US and for copyright reasons you CANNOT download movies when outside the US
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/secret-kindle-fire-north-america/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200729430
A quote from the last page 'To purchase, download or stream movies and TV shows, you must be physically present in the U.S. '
So the internet speed is the least of your worries.
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Why not stock up at home and if that's not enough for you, you can add downloads while on the road. It's not like there's a weight penalty for lugging around those videos. (PS: internet in some parts of Asia is way faster than in the US. Just saying).9
#7, netflix doesn't work normally outside of the US either. It can be cracked but that takes some effort and i haven't heard about anybody managing to do that on a Kindle fire.#8,
you can add downloads while on the road.
PLs read #6. you can't. (PS: internet in some parts of Asia is way faster than in the US. Just saying).
True. 'Asia' covers a geography with about 3.5 Billion people in it. You can't generalize. South Korea has some of the fastest broadband in the world. and north Korea basically has none (at least not for the average person). And that's just te variety in one peninsula. In general, I've noticed a large amount of speculation on this branch. most of it not hindered by any actual knowledge of the subject at hand.
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In re-reading, I note that it was you, #9, who presumed that OP was from the US, thereby making it, in thine own eyes, true.But maybe he/she is not. Maybe, as of oct 9, 2012, while dreaming about a future SEA excursion, from an armchair in Manchester UK, he/she thought of buying a Kindle Fire in a few weeks in preparation for a trip he/she is thinking of taking. If leaving in the next 2 weeks, and your assumption of residence is valid, maybe you made a point. My feeling is, we just don't know, and OP's question might touch on broader interests than simple US copyright laws and No. Korean internet speeds.
In general, I've noticed a large amount of speculation on this branch, much of it based on pretty weak, albeit imperious, hopscotch logic
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In re-reading, I note that it was you, #9, who presumed that OP was from the US, thereby making it, in thine own eyes, true.
i said 'presumably' and given that the Kindle Fire so far is only available in the US, the chances are pretty good.However, It doesn't matter where the OP is from given that movie downloads on the KIndle Fire will only work in the US. Even if the OP is from someplace else. Presumably when Kindle Fire becomes available in the UK there will be similar restrictions. So it doesn't change the answer that, at this point in time, video downloads on a Kindle are not available when travelling abroad.
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Maybe buy a smaller Kindle and download the books you want before you go, or on the go - why spend all that time on downloading a huge movie which will only entertain once for a few hours, when you could have 5000 books on a normal Kindle and have 1000's of hours of entertainment. Plus you won't have to charge it up more than once a month or so.
