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ackblom12:
Assuming your in the right area, yes. You also have to keep in mind things like Quality of Service levels, Jitter and the like. Most ISPs I've had to deal with are loathe to even admit these settings even exist to most of their customers and are a serious pain in the ass to deal with when that kind of issue arises.
dennis:
--- Quote from: snalin on 30 Mar 2009, 12:00 ---
--- Quote from: dennis on 29 Mar 2009, 19:35 ---The vast majority of broadband subscribers are simply not capable of 5 Mbps down that OnLive requires for full quality. True, many ISPs advertise higher speeds, but the realities of networks mean that you will rarely get even 75% of the advertised speed at best, and much less sustained.
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The announcer basically said that. He claimed that you could get full quality with what the companies sold as 5 MB connections, which according to him is more like 4-4.5
But prices have been dropping. My connection has an actual speed of 10 MB/sec, and we pay $50 a month. It's not that long ago we had to pay almost $40 for 1.5 MB/sec. In two years most not poor people will afford an actual speed of 5 MB with ease.
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Ok, so bandwidth may not be an issue. I still have lag issues playing low bandwidth online games such as Halo Wars with a friend who lives less than a mile away and is on the same ISP. We both have 8 Mb down and 2 Mb up connections. This is assuming that our service is even up at the time. I'm not sure how enjoyable it'll be to play an FPS on a console up to 1000 miles away on such a connection.
JD:
Ok, the beta testing is go. You can sign up here
JD:
Apparently they got it to work on 2 I-Phones? woah
Chesire Cat:
I was looking into this last week. Sadly the beta test is USA only. But apparently they are go for winter '09 and havent revised the release date to my knowledge.
Still, super excited about this. This could change the face of gaming to come in a mostly positive way. Some people will bitch about DRM issues and the fact you dont own the games etc. Me personally am 100% for this.
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