Karup's Older Women (0)
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Was a member approx. 5 months prior to this review.
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| Pros: |
- Lots of attractive older women, just like the name implies
- A very old site, with content dating back more than a decade
- Photos and videos often available
- The site administrator is active on PU
- Other sites available on network with subscription |
| Cons: |
- Extremely strict download limits
- A very old site that, if you look at realistically, mostly has old content
- Videos older than a couple of years look pretty bad
- Most videos are fairly uninspired
- Probably exclusive, but you might wonder "Is this ATK? Have I seen these shoots on ATK?" at some point. Same photographer(s) apparently. |
| Bottom Line: |
I'm reviewing each Karups site since they're apparently still treated as individual sites even though they've all recently become part of a network. That's a good thing, since "buy one, get two free" is a pretty uncommon occurrence, but also because many of the models were apparently listed on more than one Karups site. If you wanted all of (arbitrary name) "Cathy 2" photos and videos, you would've needed to join at least two sites. Now you can get all of "Cathy 2"s stuff with the same network membership, which is a good thing.
Karups Older Women is, shockingly, an adult site focusing on older women. There are some really attractive ladies, too, along with mediocre and a few unattractive ones. But different strokes for different folks, and there is something for almost everyone here so long as they like more mature and fairly homogeneous (racially) women.
There is content going back to 2006. As you would suspect, most of the older photography content looks fairly dated, but that's fine. It's available, and that's the most important part.
There is often video content, too, but it can be mostly summed up as "don't bother." Most is uninspired and not filmed at a high professional level. The older stuff looks worse than tube videos, but that can be forgiven since it's old stuff.
The biggest "con" is the strict download limits. Not gigabytes, mind you, but time. As was posted by the webmaster on the karups.com "user comments" section, quote:
"Standard, you are correct that there are absolutely NO download limits and the links do indeed expire. They expire 10 minutes after a page is opened/accessed, which is a reasonable solution to protect our content from non-members getting access to it. ... We understand that members want to access our content as easily and with as minimal restrictions as possible. We do our best to accommodate that desire while still offering our sites some protection against the infinite amount of surfers/members that share links, share passwords, etc... etc..."
What that means is you can download all you want, but you have to do it in ten minute windows. Try to start the download eleven minutes after visiting the page and the download link will not be active any longer.
The other big "con" is that total connections seem to be very limited. Want to download a couple of things in a ten minute window and continue to browse the site while you're doing it? Tough. I had two videos downloading simultaneously, using four segments each, and the site slowed to a crawl. Clicking on a model's scene took me to the page, but the thumbnail images wouldn't load. Reducing the segments to 3 per download didn't help. The thumbnails still showed the blank squares where they should be, but no images were inside. The "loading" indicator for the page was still spinning, though, so it's definitely trying. After a couple of minutes I reduced the segments to two per download and waited. Nothing. I finally reduced it to one segment per download and, after nothing happened on the original page that still shows "loading" per the indicator, I opened a new shoot from the same model.
And the same thing happened with only one segment being used for each of the two downloads. The link opened the page, but the thumbnails never loaded.
The connection was fine and the two downloads were saturating my ISP's download speeds, but nothing would happen on Karup's side while the two downloads were running.
You could open a new model's page and it would pull up her available shoots, but trying to open any of THOSE shoots yielded the same result. Empty boxes of thumbnails while the "loading" indicator spun indefinitely.
Then, interestingly, the first of the two 300MB+ downloads began slowing to a crawl, eventually trickling down to zero and failing. On the bright side, guess what finally loaded after the site dumped one of my two one-segment connections so that I couldn't finish the first download? Yep. The thumbnails finally loaded. So I queue up their zip files and start them downloading. And then, not too long after that, the second video download failed.
Bottom line: Would I recommend? If you want the content, yes, very much. As I said before and will keep saying, paying the subscription fee, constantly babysitting for ten minute intervals, and repeatedly dealing with the irritation and frustration of the site is the only way to legally acquire the pictures and videos, right? |
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