Sony Eradicates "No Blu Ray PS3" Rumors.

[justinian]

NJ5 said:

justinian said:
@NJ5

Yes I was exaggerating and kudos to you for not playing dumb and pretending I wasn't.

I live in the UK and I also have "16Mbit" broadband and although it is much faster than the 2mb I was using before there is no way I can download 50gb in 10hrs. At least from what I've experienced so far.

Just to download a linux OS of about 4GB almost damn near took that long.
I know there are other factors involve with the overall download speeds but 16Mbit/sec doesn't mean that it is the true download speed, it's usally a quarter of that.

I can most likely upload stuff at that speed but dowloading is a whole different matter.

Then there is also the limit some ISP/contracts place on the total GBs you can download in a week/month etc.

That could be due to several reasons. Is it an ADSL connection? Some phone lines are better than others, and your distance to the phone exchange also has a big influence. Or it could just be an ISP problem.

Regarding traffic limits, they used to be quite bad in Portugal, but then competition arrived and now you often get unlimited traffic.

 

Which brings us nicely back to your post. The only people that would benefit from PS3 50GB downloads -if previous post are anything to go by are the scandanavians and the portugese. Not the major markets of the USA and UK.

Yes, I think it is the distance from the exchange.