http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23107254 en Sun, 19 May 2013 12:52:39 EDT Sun, 19 May 2013 12:52:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23111410 said by FBGuy:

I am still lost how gaming = high bandwidth usage. what percent of your bandwidth usage in a given month do you seriously think is all gaming? if it is greater than 50% then all I can say is wow. just wow.
Even gaming as many of us do now can eat up gigabytes quickly. Playing a game doesn't use up much bandwidth, but if I wasn't planning on hosting games I wouldn't have the 2 MB upload I pay for...

Now hosting games? That'll run through bandwidth real quick.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23111410 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:36:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23111107
He has a 100gb cap. You would need at LEAST a 1.5mb connection..

it all adds up, in the end, considering this is video streaming too.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23111107 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:21:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23109086 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23109086 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:48:25 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23107385
The tech responsible for such services will more than likely die LONG before it takes off.

First of all, your more serious gamers won't even consider it. Even if it's minimal lag, it's still additional lag. That's an absolute hell no for many gamers, including me.

Then there's the fact that we do have so many providers going to this cap nonsense. Charter is implementing a 100 GB cap and I wouldn't even think of streaming more content because of it. I probably average 90-120 GB/month under normal use, streaming something like this is another big hell no.

As a side note to that, I hope the internet service providing industry is prepared to figure out a way to combat the increase in people attempting to steal their neighbor's internet services. What happened when people got sick of CDs being $20? They started pirating them, and now CDs barely sell at $10. People will get sick of these silly caps being imposed, and they'll go around them. Our economy is in no shape to be giving away extra money because of the caps of greedy providers.

Another problem is that even casual gamers wouldn't be pleased by losing their connection while their playing their game, and almost everyone has experienced a random outage at some point. Not to mention your casual gamer crowd is the same crowd most likely to have the bare minimum requirements for using the service in the first place, which means that unless their connection is VERY stable and can consistently hold that bare minimum, they won't go for it either.

My point is, it's too early for this kind of tech.

Until we have minimum broadband standards, much more stable connections (wireless ones especially, because people now tend to HATE wires), and have more people educated on how to adjust the settings in their various home environments to ensure maximum performance out of such a service, it's presently a waste of time.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Garbage-23107385 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:03:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Garbage-23107254 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Garbage-23107254 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:44:04 EDT