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Rainbird on 13 March 2009
NJ5 said:
justinian said:
Feylic said:

I also live in a developed country, but it would probably take me 10 days to download 50GB, not to mention my connection would probably be terminated for exceeding bandwidth limitations before I finished. Infrastructure has a long way to go before downloads take over completely...

 

Completely agree. It's like 0.001% of the developed world with that capability, much less the percentage that own a PS3.

Buying a PS3 shouldn't automatically mean you have to install a lease line. My office has (6x2M) 12M lease line and I am sure I couldn't do 50GB in 10hrs.

 

 

In Portugal and Sweden (and I know other countries too) tons of people have at least a 16 Mbit connection. It's really cheap too (20-40 €)

If we count developed world as EU+USA+Canada+Oceania+Japan that's almost 1 billion people, according to your calculation only 10,000 people have this kind of connection :P

(and yes, I know you were exaggerating on purpose)

 

Well, Sweden is the capital of fast internet

Didn't the head of one the ISPs give his mom a 1 GBit connection, just to prove it could be done, or something like that?



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NJ5 on 13 March 2009
Rainbird said:

Well, Sweden is the capital of fast internet

Didn't the head of one the ISPs give his mom a 1 GBit connection, just to prove it could be done, or something like that?

Yeah but as I said it isn't Sweden only. I have lived in Portugal, Denmark and Sweden and had very fast and cheap connections in all these countries... and I know there are many more (Korea is very good too I hear, and I imagine Japan too, not to mention many other European countries).

It's just that broadband happens to be worse in places like USA, UK and Australia, countries with a very vocal nerd population begging for better connections.

 



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Rainbird on 13 March 2009

Oh, I know there are plenty other places with good internet speeds, but I have always been jealous of the swedes and their awesome prices on awesome connections.

But it's not like I'm entitled to complain... My dad is getting glassfiber cables, both in our new and our old house. And a month after we get to use it, I'm moving out...



justinian on 13 March 2009

@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.



NJ5 on 13 March 2009
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.

 



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justinian on 13 March 2009
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.

 



NJ5 on 13 March 2009
justinian said:

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.

 

I can hardly believe that Portugal is that special in this regard. I just mentioned the countries I know about.

 



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Feylic on 13 March 2009

You guys might like this. http://www.speedtest.net/global.php?continent=3 . Keep in mind I think the "Top country by download speed" is the average top speed that providers have. Not everyone who has the internet is going to have the top speed... Anywho, compare Europe to North America/Asia/Anywhere else and it's a very different scene. Once I can download a game as fast as it takes me to go to the store and buy it, then downloading will have won :p .



justinian on 13 March 2009

@Feylic

Thanks for that link. If we can trust that then my area (and lots of the UK are pretty pathetic)



Feylic on 13 March 2009
justinian said:
@Feylic

Thanks for that link. If we can trust that then my area (and lots of the UK are pretty pathetic)

O yeah, should have added a disclaimer. I don't hold that site 100% accurate of course, it's just a good place to get an idea of global speeds. Glad it could be of some use to you :D