by "Nibbles" (nibbles)
Published 11/30/2017 at 07:30
by "Nibbles" (nibbles)
Published 11/30/2017 at 07:30
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Got my 1-X last night; Amazon said delivery by 8 PM. Received at 7:45. Proceeded to load it up and install games; 10 hours later I have three downloaded.
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
11/30/2017 at 07:36, STARS: 0
All while I’m chugging along with a 25/10 line which already cost me $40 a month, with a third-party ISP line.
Rogers and Bell can go fuck themselves.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
11/30/2017 at 08:00, STARS: 1
Dorms are the way to go. Somewhere on oppo there is a comment with the speedtest results of me hitting 860+Mb/s down and 980+Mb/s up on my dorm’s ethernet. Forza 7 downloaded at a steady 300+Mb/s.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
11/30/2017 at 08:00, STARS: 0
Is the slowdown in your network or is it in the ISP’s network? Plug the 1-X directly into your modem and see if that improves things. If it doesn’t, buying a new router won’t help.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
11/30/2017 at 08:07, STARS: 1
some might say amazon delivery is faster than your internet... could have just ordered the games on amazon.
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
11/30/2017 at 08:39, STARS: 0
Unfortunately I’m really far away from a dorm
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
11/30/2017 at 08:40, STARS: 0
It’s the fact that I pay good money for 50Mb cable when ten bucks more per month would get me gig fiber. I’m switching next week (earliest install date)
ETA: I run Cat6 to the gig port on my router. That’s definitely not the problem ;)
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
11/30/2017 at 08:40, STARS: 0
Absolutely; that’s horrible!
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
11/30/2017 at 08:41, STARS: 0
They’d still have to download :(
~100GB per game is painful
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
11/30/2017 at 08:44, STARS: 0
I didn’t tell you the second part... I’m capped at 250GB. Lucky for me it’s peak hours only, 2AM-2PM I’m unlimited.
Had a friend on Rogers, their contract discounts expired and the cap dropped to like 60GB. Past few months without them knowing (they’re older folks) they got charged $200-300 of overage because they had friends visiting. Weren’t even over by that much, like 20GB or so. Had to call in, threaten to cancel, then they gave them a new package with 500GB.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
11/30/2017 at 09:13, STARS: 0
You never know the whole situation when people post these things. Often they are talking about upgrading their router when the real problem is the connection to the house.
I admit a great deal of jealousy. GB fiber isn’t even an option where I live. To be fair, though, I haven’t had any issues with our current cable setup. My download speeds are better than what I have at work and it’s not unusual for me to work from home if I need to download a lot of data.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/30/2017 at 10:23, STARS: 0
That’s insanity, I can hit 60gb without even trying very hard, haha.
500gb is a lot better, not great, but better.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
11/30/2017 at 10:26, STARS: 0
I am like 3 or 4 blocks away from where fiber is available in my area. It’s frustrating. I’ve got 25mbit for $30/mo, so that’s decent enough though.
It’s a bit slow in situations like yours where you have to download a 50 to 100gb game and all you want do is play it right the hell NOW!
"Nibbles" (nibbles)
11/30/2017 at 10:44, STARS: 0
They laid fiber in my neighborhood - surprising since it’s the low-rent district - over the summer. Had I not been stubborn I could’ve been on it for a year at $50/mo but I don’t cater to solicitors. Now I’m gonna be at $85.