kain_kusanagi said:
ganoncrotch said:
mjk45 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Sometimes I think I must be the only person with a slow broadband connection. I can't watch high quality video streams without buffer breaks so there's no way I'd be able to play a game streaming across the internet. If Sony or MS or whatever installs a server farm across the street maybe I'd be more hopeful. But right now I have no interesting in stream gaming.
I know I'm not the only one. The US has a huge number of rural slow connections that aren't going to get upgraded any time soon. The US is just far too big to get fiber in every home at a reasonable cost. |
IF Australia can have a National Broadband Network and it is the same size as the continental US then I assume it's a political decision not to.
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Austrailias net is always a thing causing grief to the gamers there, I didn't see a single AU review of Diablo 3 that wasn't just them crying for the duration of it about how they had terrible internet and games that used the internet were terrible. I know of course there is the same regions in AU btw but there is a lot of America where people are more interested in Banjos and their own sister than getting fiber broadband.
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Fiber just isn't an option. I and tens of millions of others live just ten miles from true high speed. Many rural towns don't have fiber at all. It's not a matter of being too poor or too stupid. It's that the US is too big and spread out. It has taken 20 years to get DSL and Satalite internet to homes without cable access. It's going to takeat least another 20 or 30 years before fiber finds it's way to those homes.
For tens of millions of Americans that live just barely outside of fiber optic zones, they have only two choices. Move or live with slow speeds.
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ah I'm sorry I wasn't suggesting that the fiber connection was there but the people were too rural to want to use it, I was saying that there are a lot of areas which telecommunication companys know would have no interest for the most part in the high speed lines so they've not bothered to roll them out to those areas.
