 GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | BAH! US only. Looks like Canadians are getting snubbed. Despite the fact that the vast majority of Canada's population is inside of OnLive's coverage zones (1000 miles from an OnLive datacenter), the service isn't being offered to us.
For my part, it looks like Montreal, with a regional population of over 3 million, is about 590 miles by road from the nearest OnLive hardware. Clearly we're comfortably within range, and yet... |
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 DrModemPremium
join:2006-10-19
USA
kudos:1 | said by Guspaz:Looks like Canadians are getting snubbed. Nah. This thing will fail, you won't be crying for it. |
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 IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | reply to Guspaz
said by Guspaz:Looks like Canadians are getting snubbed. Despite the fact that the vast majority of Canada's population is inside of OnLive's coverage zones (1000 miles from an OnLive datacenter), the service isn't being offered to us. For my part, it looks like Montreal, with a regional population of over 3 million, is about 590 miles by road from the nearest OnLive hardware. Clearly we're comfortably within range, and yet... You guys would just hit your bit caps and start getting charged your overages if it were offered to you  |
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GuspazGuspazPremium,MVM
join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
kudos:16 | Not everybody has bit caps quite yet, although it may be inevitable.
My ISP has unlimited, but since the last-mile is wholesale Bell, and Bell is insisting on adding caps on the last-mile (silly as they already charge per megabit, but...), it may not last. |
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It's called being international ! , They need to apply to do business in canada , and this company doesn't have the cash to start that yet.
Get a friend or family member in the us to subscribe for you and use it from there. Doubt they do ip checking yet.
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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt......and then it's absolutely friggin' hysterical!" |
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Noooooooo.... some of us are lucky enough to be with enlightened ISPs that provide caps that are big enough for the common techie. As guspaz said previously, my ISP offers unlimited($10 more than capped) and the caps START at 200GB/month. |
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IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | Shame the speeds stop at ~6Mbps. Doesn't leave much room after 5Mbps of HD stream to do anything else, and that assumes it isn't affected by wholesale shaping  |
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| No shaping/throttling here thanks to our use of MLPPP to avoid the incumbent and their DPI.
Sadly yes, 6mbps is our reality lol |
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