If I‘D live in Aserbaijan I’d leave my stuff installed as well.

Fair point. I did not think of that given that the only other denizen of this house is my girlfriend

The game looks like it tries too hard, which is too bad: cats deserve better.

I was messing with some 8-bit crap while being distracted by this thread.

Well. 8-bit is actually 256.
When unsigned it's value range is 0 to 255.

Surprised I missed your pun though.

Signed should be -128 to 127 I think

LOL I'm just happy to have DSL.  I live out in the country and keenly remember the days of dial up.  If they hadn't gotten me DSL my next best option would have been satellite and I probably would have given up on gaming.

X1 is definitely much slower at installs.

Still you can uninstall them when you are done. Especially with games on disc, since installing those literally takes only a few minutes. Sometimes that data is even deletable while you keep the patches installed. Since the latter take ages to install.

Yeah...that’s what you get for preferring the Yoda lifestyle I guess ;) although we still have areas like that here as well..I always find it puzzling that in Scandinavia even in the far away Finnish Tundra you get high speed wi-if access but the biggest industry nations on earth are unable to do something like this for their people. 

the ps4 method of updating is indeed strange but honestly at the point where you are annoyed you can't fit meat boy on there too while you have what.... 1tb of games just sat on the platters?

play those games rather than making threads about why you can't fit one last indie on the system that you wont play either?

edit - unless you have a major bandwidth cap issue, then I don't mean to sound too harsh, I understand some countries really limit downloads allowed each month.

Indeed.

That is because it actually dumps the entire disc to the hard drive.
More data = Longer installs.
There are advantages to each approach.

You don't need to justify yourself.

I remember a time when DSL never existed... And Cable was just a pipedream.
I started life back on a 14.4kbps dial-up modem.

In Australia they are rolling 25Mbps fixed wireless to allot of regional areas and ditching DSL completely while more built-up areas are getting 100Mbps VDSL or Fiber.

But mostly such disparities exist because DSL gets slower due to signal attenuation on the copper cable, you are only good for a couple miles/kilometers from the DSLAM... So plopping them down all through an entire continent gets expensive very fast.
It is not an issue shared by dial-up. - In-fact my VDSL provider offers me a free 56k backup dial-up service in case my VDSL goes offline. (But with my 4G phone getting about 80Mbps on a good day, doubt I will need it.)

Same issue exists for wireless too, the farther you are away from a tower, the weaker the signal gets, the slower your speed becomes, although it's range is typically far larger than DSL and doesn't require fixed lines into the residences homes, so costs are significantly reduced.

Satellite is just shit though. I would have rather paid extra and gone IDSN. It's better than dial up, not as good as basic DSL.