On October 08 2011 01:37 Otori wrote: A wild whale appears, man the harpoons
Oh man! This cracked me up big time! Also, keep changing streams and click "continue to watch free streams"... I have watched prime stuff with "3 free minutes" for a while now..
not one single person should be blaming IGN for this
this is on Blizzard for not having LAN
lan would let them broadcast games without internet?
It isn't IGN's fault but it isn't BLizzards either
djWHEAT @lolPfhor @imhid yes because playing until 3AM is bad and you can always show VODs. It sucks but the schedule is important! 12 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
I think people are to quick to defend the lack of LAN as not hurting anything because it is.
On October 08 2011 00:46 figq wrote: Is really NA internet "bad" in general? That sounds new/interesting to know (sorry for off-topic); I have always assumed that overall "the best Internet" in the world is in the USA, just because all the most important world servers, and the Silicon Valley, are there. Has this been changing lately?
America's a big place and it's very expensive to put down top of the line cable just for internet like South Korea does. I can't speak for everyone, but no matter where I've lived, I've never not had an outage at least once a month or having the ISP secretly throttle my bandwidth.
Size doesn't really matter. Population density is what matters. Sweden has a much lower population density than the USA and some of the best internet in the world. You can only blame Internet quality in the US on policy.
Well, not population density as much as population distribution. If you have a massive country with all the population distributed to one corner of it, it's cheap to have high quality internet. Sweden, for example, has most of the population distributed in the south-most third of the country with vast emptiness in the North, while the USA is much more evenly distributed.
May I just ask, how come you know the population distribution of Sweden?
Haha, I assumed no-one would want to live in the frozen wastes up north :p Then I checked the internets to confirm. Makes sense that most cities would be either next to the coast or near the south where it's a bit warmer.
On October 08 2011 00:46 figq wrote: Is really NA internet "bad" in general? That sounds new/interesting to know (sorry for off-topic); I have always assumed that overall "the best Internet" in the world is in the USA, just because all the most important world servers, and the Silicon Valley, are there. Has this been changing lately?
America's a big place and it's very expensive to put down top of the line cable just for internet like South Korea does. I can't speak for everyone, but no matter where I've lived, I've never not had an outage at least once a month or having the ISP secretly throttle my bandwidth.
Size doesn't really matter. Population density is what matters. Sweden has a much lower population density than the USA and some of the best internet in the world. You can only blame Internet quality in the US on policy.
Well, not population density as much as population distribution. If you have a massive country with all the population distributed to one corner of it, it's cheap to have high quality internet. Sweden, for example, has most of the population distributed in the south-most third of the country with vast emptiness in the North, while the USA is much more evenly distributed.
HEY! I live in the north! You make it sound like I live in a black hole or something (vast emptiness..). We get really neat internet up here aswell btw.
Haha, I'm almost 90% sure it's too cold up there for anyone to survive! Are you living on the coast, or literally in the middle of Sweden way north?
I live on the coast (Kalix). It's still quite cold, especially last winter (coldest one in 70 years), it was constantly -30 to -35 celsius for months. The summers are quite warm though, but short. I've lived further inland north for two years aswell (Kiruna) and you can definitely live there too. You can survive in the cold and there's people living everywhere in sweden, but in smaller towns that wont show up on that population density map you had.
You can also get good internet pretty much everywhere in sweden (even furthest north). If not fiber in some of the smaller towns you can always get stable dsl at 30Mbit/12Mbit or 24/2.
8mmspikes: According to the official word, the fiber line bringing in internet to the hotel is broke, other word is that it is maintenence. Either way Comcast is at the venue right now to fix it. There is NO INTERNET THERE so NO GAMES from the venue can be onli...