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Squilliam on 29 March 2010
Branko2166 said:
@Squilliam
Just out of curiosity what is your line speed?? And when you say unlimited do you actually get unlimited downloads or does your speed get capped when you download a certain amount?

Here in Sydney I have a 20M/b connection but in practice the most I get is around 16M/b (2MB/sec)
Also my download speed is reduced once I go over 30GB for the month :(

Its probably up to around 12Mb but typically its somewhere between 800kb and 8Mb however PSN is always slow. It doesn't appear to be capped but it does depend on where I get it from. Microsoft are always fast and I can download an Xbox 360 game on demand in less time than it takes to download a 200MB PSN update like for instance Heavy Rain.

binary solo said:

That's pretty sucky. I'm on 4Mbs download and it appears the speed on PSN is about the same as everything else. Still takes a while to download hundreds of MB, and downloading a multi-Gig game or demo is only an occasional thing esp since I'm on a 10Gig cap.

OT I always fancied the idea of putting Linux on my PS3 and turning it into a "real" computer. But never got onto it and by the sounds of things it wasn't as good or easy a fit as Linux on a PC. So I'm only going to miss the idea of it, it's not going to have any practical or meaningful effect for me.

Well it only costs me $60 and im a bit of a download whore with Steam and illicit TV shows. Its an excellent replacement for the Sky service downloading all the TV shows like Heroes, Supernatural, Smallville, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Mentalist, Caprica, True Blood etc.

Don't you have a Slim model? If so you couldn't put Linux on even if you wanted to!

 



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KBG29 on 29 March 2010

As much as I loved having the other OS, this is a good thing. Sure I will be loosing the photo editing software, the better browser, the ability to play back any videos files I want, the ability to covert files, open zip and rar files, but I am sure Sony will bring those to the XMB. As long as they don't end up with another PSP, I am happy.



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gamelover2000 on 29 March 2010

well since I never use it and it deletes those nasty pirates.. hit it :D



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GodOfWar_3ever on 29 March 2010

I'm guessing all you other OS users want Geohot to die now...



NJ5 on 29 March 2010

I was planning to buy a PS3 in the cheap down the line, but Sony keeps making it harder and harder to justify...

Maybe I will anyway if there are some good games using the move, but the removal of features is annoying (Linux especially, since I'm a programmer and wouldn't mind toying with Cell programming for a while).



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Spankey on 29 March 2010

so this removes other OS.
I'm too put out by this.
It's something I've always wanted to try but never bothered to go through with it, then have to reload my PS3 again from backup. too much of a mission for what I can use a PC to do anyway.

Any ideas/rumours what it adds in it's place?



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NJ5 on 29 March 2010
Spankey said:


Any ideas/rumours what it adds in it's place?

Probably just peace of mind for SCE executives ("hah, noone will be able to pirate the PS3 ever!").

 



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Pilat on 29 March 2010

"Geohot fans gonna cry"
make my day))



NJ5 on 29 March 2010

Just one more thing... Isn't it illegal to remove a feature from a product you sold with no exceptionally valid reason? Especially when this feature was advertised as part of the PS3 experience... People actually paid for the ability to run Linux on the PS3.

If my computer or my consoles suddenly lost a feature just because some company felt like it, I'd be pissed off, that's for sure.

 



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Severance on 29 March 2010
NJ5 said:

Just one more thing... Isn't it illegal to remove a feature from a product you sold with no exceptionally valid reason? Especially when this feature was advertised as part of the PS3 experience... People actually paid for the ability to run Linux on the PS3.

If my computer or my consoles suddenly lost a feature just because some company felt like it, I'd be pissed off, that's for sure.

 

the old PS3 was......ADVERTISED?!?!?!?!!



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