Sony close to agreeing cloud gaming acquisition...and no PS4? Big E3 announcement incoming

[Zim]

kowenicki said:

Zim said:

What ISP do you have? For example I'm on BT's unlimited broadband option. However what it actually means is 300GB is your fair use amount. If you go over that then next month your speed is capped. Luckily I don't think i've ever got near 300GB lol. However I think most UK providers unlimited options have fair use amounts. 

You are right that a lot of people here are capped though. Bt's other 2 broadband options are capped at 10GB and 40GB a month. I imagine you could blow through that very fast using online or gaikai. 

Zen internet... there is a fair use, but Im not sure what it is and I have certainly never got near it.  I am switching to BT infinity next month though. 

I had a little look and Zen internet's usage allowance varies between 10Gb to 200GB for personal use. 400GB or 2000GB if you have an office line though lol. 20GB for Lite, 100GB for active, 200GB for Pro. 

With Bt infinity it is either 40GB or 'unlimited' depending on which plan you go with. The unlimited is also 300GB. After that you start getting throttled (internet use not real life =D) but won't ever be charged. 

Interestingly one of the Zen Media usage allowance pages states that 20GB = 60hours of standard definition BBC iplayer. So basically 3 hours of SD video = 1GB I suppose. Will be interesting to see what your test shows with how much Gaikai uses. I can easily imagine it nearing 1GB per hour. Probably not an issue with 300GB of fair usage but at 40GB it would be a BIG issue.