DirecPC has an everchanging latency. depending on the kind of modem you use, you can use either an ethernet port or USB. some of the USB ones can be modified to use Ethernet (there's a port inside that the USB part plugs into)
best ping time you're going to see over satellite is about 500ms, more like 800ms average. pages load quickly, but there's that pause with every click. games dont work very well over it, but some games are actually playable. the user experience isnt very good though. I've seen 80k sustained downloads over the standard package.
downside as previously mentioned is that you are limited to a certain amount of data for certain parts of the day before they chop your download speeds considerably.
if i modify my car to ram other people off the road, do you go and sue the maker of my car? what about the dealer that sold it to me? how about the people that made the tires? or the plastic company that sold the raw materials to the guys that make the turn signal covers?
where does it end?
and lets make it even better. you wait until i run a little green "new" beetle off the road to sue me. why? because it was YOURS and you were directly affected that time.
Blizzard did a bang up job of keeping a closed beta closed. thier first mistake was making the cd image too small. they could have more than doubled its size and discouraged alot of its trading. they also made it extremely small which leaves a huge crowd of diehard users that will play, even if they have to do it illegally. they could have charged 6$ or some other reasonably small fee to distribute the beta via cdrom. I would have been okay with that and so would everyone else. dont require a cdkey, but you can time expire it so it wont play on bnet anymore and people dont have to resort to pirate servers in the first place.
if the legit thing works in the first place, rogue operations will be much more sparse. you cant just be a bully and expect to get away with it. there is a certain level of charisma required in every large public event.
Did anyone read items 31-35?
Blizzard intends to proove that BNETD was intended for direct financial gain. it is OPEN SOURCE which makes it FREE OF FINANCIAL COSTS.
I dont know why anyone would want to sue someone else for emulation of thier service.
next month AOL will be suing trillian since they cant keep kicking aim users off forever. for protocol reversing and use! claims that they copied a nonpublic protocol or something else ridiculously stupid in a futile attempt to stop trillian from taking thier ad revenue away.
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DirecPC has an everchanging latency. depending on the kind of modem you use, you can use either an ethernet port or USB. some of the USB ones can be modified to use Ethernet (there's a port inside that the USB part plugs into)
best ping time you're going to see over satellite is about 500ms, more like 800ms average. pages load quickly, but there's that pause with every click. games dont work very well over it, but some games are actually playable. the user experience isnt very good though. I've seen 80k sustained downloads over the standard package.
downside as previously mentioned is that you are limited to a certain amount of data for certain parts of the day before they chop your download speeds considerably.
i have a problem with paying to download demos, trailers, or previews. why does this entire concept just sound stupid?
optimium online will do 4mbit up and down. RR will do 384kbps up (about 3mb a minute)
if i modify my car to ram other people off the road, do you go and sue the maker of my car? what about the dealer that sold it to me? how about the people that made the tires? or the plastic company that sold the raw materials to the guys that make the turn signal covers? where does it end? and lets make it even better. you wait until i run a little green "new" beetle off the road to sue me. why? because it was YOURS and you were directly affected that time. Blizzard did a bang up job of keeping a closed beta closed. thier first mistake was making the cd image too small. they could have more than doubled its size and discouraged alot of its trading. they also made it extremely small which leaves a huge crowd of diehard users that will play, even if they have to do it illegally. they could have charged 6$ or some other reasonably small fee to distribute the beta via cdrom. I would have been okay with that and so would everyone else. dont require a cdkey, but you can time expire it so it wont play on bnet anymore and people dont have to resort to pirate servers in the first place. if the legit thing works in the first place, rogue operations will be much more sparse. you cant just be a bully and expect to get away with it. there is a certain level of charisma required in every large public event.
Did anyone read items 31-35? Blizzard intends to proove that BNETD was intended for direct financial gain. it is OPEN SOURCE which makes it FREE OF FINANCIAL COSTS. I dont know why anyone would want to sue someone else for emulation of thier service. next month AOL will be suing trillian since they cant keep kicking aim users off forever. for protocol reversing and use! claims that they copied a nonpublic protocol or something else ridiculously stupid in a futile attempt to stop trillian from taking thier ad revenue away.