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NJ5 on 31 March 2009
kitler53 said:
NJ5 said:
dbot said:
I doubt it will work, and I certainly won't be an early adopter. But I am prepared to fully embrace it if it is good. I think Comcast would have me capped at about 12 hours of HD gaming per month, which just isn't going to work for me.

That's rather interesting and I hadn't thought much about it. At 5 Mbits/s, this will consume around 2.2 GB per hour of data for "HD" (720p with video compression) gaming. What's the typical traffic cap for USA ISPs?

 

in my area - 250 Gb cap with an option to by at $15 for each additional 10Gb.

250 Gb per month/2.2 Gb per hour = 113.6 hours per month = ~3.8 hours per day

...but i should note the cap is higher in my area than most.  some areas are as low as 60 Gb caps.

60/2.2 = 27.3 hours per month = <1 hour a day.

And that's of course if you use your connection for Onlive and nothing else.

 



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dbot on 31 March 2009
NJ5 said:
dbot said:
I doubt it will work, and I certainly won't be an early adopter. But I am prepared to fully embrace it if it is good. I think Comcast would have me capped at about 12 hours of HD gaming per month, which just isn't going to work for me.

That's rather interesting and I hadn't thought much about it. At 5 Mbits/s, this will consume around 2.2 GB per hour of data for "HD" (720p with video compression) gaming. What's the typical traffic cap for USA ISPs?

 

Comcast is at 250 Gigs.  I think they have the most generous cap.

 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

Khuutra on 31 March 2009
NJ5 said:

If nothing else does, this could well kill this service... I've got to wonder though, with all of these cons, why did so many companies get on board?

Low risk investment, I imagine.



WiiStation360 on 31 March 2009
dbot said:
NJ5 said:
dbot said:
I doubt it will work, and I certainly won't be an early adopter. But I am prepared to fully embrace it if it is good. I think Comcast would have me capped at about 12 hours of HD gaming per month, which just isn't going to work for me.

That's rather interesting and I hadn't thought much about it. At 5 Mbits/s, this will consume around 2.2 GB per hour of data for "HD" (720p with video compression) gaming. What's the typical traffic cap for USA ISPs?

 

Comcast is at 250 Gigs.  I think they have the most generous cap.

 

As far as I know, Verizon FiOS has no cap.

 



mrstickball on 31 March 2009
PDF said:
I have faith in OnLive. I am sick and tired of getting a computer and then feeling outdated only a year later.

With that much faith, can I tell you about a flying car I want to sell you?

OnLive won't work for many, many years. You cannot stream 720p video and have low enough lag to be meaningful to anyone. If you want to test OnLive now, go boot up a GMail account, and goto their cloud-rendered spreadsheet program. A simple spreadsheet takes quite awhile to render.

Now think about playing a game like Crysis on your computer. Yeah. It's the same tech.

 



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Kzoellner on 31 March 2009

I would be interest what ppl would pay for these games.......



dgm6780 on 31 March 2009

I love how internet posters think they know more then people who have spent 7 years researching and developing this, not to mention the big money they have also spent. Of course you know more about what this service is capable of then EA , Epic Games, and Eidos. THey are all just morons compared to you and your vast knowledge of everything internet.



NJ5 on 31 March 2009
dgm6780 said:
I love how internet posters think they know more then people who have spent 7 years researching and developing this, not to mention the big money they have also spent. Of course you know more about what this service is capable of then EA , Epic Games, and Eidos. THey are all just morons compared to you and your vast knowledge of everything internet.

No matter how many years you spend researching Onlive, you're not gonna make the internet faster, change the laws of physics or increase the traffic caps given by ISPs. There are certain roadblocks which are almost sure to bring up problems to many of the potential customers of Onlive.

There are plenty of reasons to be doutbtful that this will work in the near future. As far as I know there hasn't been any demo of this with full disclosure of connection type and other important factors.

 



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WiiStation360 on 31 March 2009

Has anyone tried StreamMyGames? 

It seems to use the same concept, but just streaming from your gaming PC, not from some server hundreds of miles away.



GOONYDUDE on 31 March 2009
dgm6780 said:
I love how internet posters think they know more then people who have spent 7 years researching and developing this, not to mention the big money they have also spent. Of course you know more about what this service is capable of then EA , Epic Games, and Eidos. THey are all just morons compared to you and your vast knowledge of everything internet.

I agree with this.



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