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Re: I Hope It Succeeds said by Selenia:Not sure if I'm actually interested in the service yet(we'll have to see). However, this will blow over every ISP's dreams of caps if it attains success. Right now, these caps mostly cause uproar from techies like some of us. If they cap low and Jr runs up a huge bandwidth bill, there will be uproar from the mainstream consumer about ISPs gouging us for bandwidth. I hope few on my local cable node decide to use this service. That is all we need - a few kids playing games non-stop eating up 5 mbps of bandwidth each during prime hours. Of course, Comcast's throttling of heavy users on congested nodes should shut them down if necessary. |
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Hilliard, OH | $60 is an absolute steal for a game that is good. I've played so many hours on COD MW and MW2 that I'd say it' darn cheap entertainment. Hell I'd pay $150 if I had to buy them again.
However when you drop $60 on a crap game, that's a bummer. |
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Philly burbs
kudos:1 | True that.
Nothing worse than dog shit software.
As I said earlier, I'm still hacking away at COD MW on line. One of the best games I've ever played. Certainly was worth what I paid for it.
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said by fAcEtIOUs:said by Selenia:Not sure if I'm actually interested in the service yet(we'll have to see). However, this will blow over every ISP's dreams of caps if it attains success. Right now, these caps mostly cause uproar from techies like some of us. If they cap low and Jr runs up a huge bandwidth bill, there will be uproar from the mainstream consumer about ISPs gouging us for bandwidth. I hope few on my local cable node decide to use this service. That is all we need - a few kids playing games non-stop eating up 5 mbps of bandwidth each during prime hours. Of course, Comcast's throttling of heavy users on congested nodes should shut them down if necessary. Comcast has actually been testing channel bonded DOCSIS 3.0, which I think should be able to handle the throughput just fine. Something has to push current gen network upgrades. If it becomes really popular, a distributed network setup(sort of like Akamai, but with these gaming servers) should also minimize load on internet backbones by keeping traffic local. This is an idea that can expand with time, if implemented properly. I bet gaming is one thing that drives the Japanese to want those fast fiber connections. The government kept them cheap by keeping competition open. I'm not worried about my DOCSIS 1.1 node even. It's upstream that is the issue and a dumb terminal like this isn't going to be sending much upstream. Cable, in general, does very well at doing downstream and should not get so easily saturated. It's upstream that is the problem with other kinds of bandwidth hogs like 24/7 Demonoid users that seed 200 torrents, not to mention number of connections. Besides, mostly elderly people are on my node.
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If you don't like it, switch to another provider (if there is one). |
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