 kapilThe Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL | O RLY? Video streaming, games delivered over broadband, Voice over IP. Someone should let the ISPs know that they're just dumb pipe providers because I have a feeling that they'll have something to say about that.
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| said by kapil:Video streaming, games delivered over broadband, Voice over IP. Someone should let the ISPs know that they're just dumb pipe providers because I have a feeling that they'll have something to say about that. Actually most ISP would probably like this, because I have a feeling that onlive is going to have to go around and sell this service to them so they can in turn resell it to the customer as a bundled item that will not eat away your bandwidth cap.
Plus onlive is probably going to have to get on ISP's networks to avoid latency.
The HD version can eat up to 1650 GB of bandwidth per month.
Even someone playing for 1/8 of a month would eat 206 GB of bandwidth.
This is going to make peoples bills much higher, so onlive is going to have to do something with the ISP to work on that. |
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| said by dlewis23:said by kapil:Video streaming, games delivered over broadband, Voice over IP. Someone should let the ISPs know that they're just dumb pipe providers because I have a feeling that they'll have something to say about that. Actually most ISP would probably like this, because I have a feeling that onlive is going to have to go around and sell this service to them so they can in turn resell it to the customer as a bundled item that will not eat away your bandwidth cap. Plus onlive is probably going to have to get on ISP's networks to avoid latency. The HD version can eat up to 1650 GB of bandwidth per month. Even someone playing for 1/8 of a month would eat 206 GB of bandwidth. This is going to make peoples bills much higher, so onlive is going to have to do something with the ISP to work on that. If they resold this service to ISP's and bundled it with their packages, without going against your cap wouldn't that be part of this whole Net Neutrality debate?
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| Yea kinda. But how else are they going to do it? Onlive is never going to work when ISP's have caps. Even if comcast had a 1TB cap, there are a lot of people who would blow through that just based on this service. |
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| said by dlewis23:Yea kinda. But how else are they going to do it? Onlive is never going to work when ISP's have caps. Even if comcast had a 1TB cap, there are a lot of people who would blow through that just based on this service. Don't get me wrong I completely agree. A service this bandwidth intensive will never work with these caps in place. I watched their original press conference and they downplayed the whole cap situation.
I personally don't think its even going to work. It's a nice idea but I don't think it will work in the real world. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to kapil
They have plans to deal with upstarts like this. It's called Caps, and high overages. |
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