IEM New York - Day 1 Coverage - Page 8

On October 14 2011 01:38 Frankon wrote:

All the nerds @comicon are using the bandwitch

On October 14 2011 01:35 Fandango wrote:


I honestly can't fathom how on earth you think roaming tournament series that rely on rented locations can do something more than they already do. They can't get backup or dedicated lines put in months in advance, all they can do is pass their requirements on to the place they're using in advance and press on them the importance of it, which they do. All of them.

You can't play SC2 on satellite connections and until someone invents a magic system that provides remote internet with low latency without copper wire or fibre optic cabling (which is pretty unlikely unless wireless coverage, power and infrastructure change dramatically), it's going to happen. The only way around it is to have a dedicated location for all the events where there can be backup lines from different providers, or have it take place in places which put internet at a much higher priority than most and there really aren't that many of those about.

This thing is at NYCC where the whole thing has to be shared with like 20-30 game company streams and content uploaders as well as journalists and NYCC staff, so that adds a whole other issue where the internet is available but not enough bandwidth is dedicated, which is rarely going to be as simple as just asking for more.

On October 14 2011 01:40 Scorch wrote:
I still don't get why Blizz doesn't send a representative with a Battle.net server running on his laptop to all the large tournaments. It's in Blizzard's own interest. It can't be healthy for your business to have thousands of viewers waiting angrily for a tournament to continue and curse Blizzard for not including LAN.

On October 14 2011 01:42 torg wrote:


So you are saying that streaming + a couple of journalists needs tons of bandwith ?
Ever been at a big LAN in allocated sites? They actually get backup dedicated lines.

In dreamhack in sweeden and Gathering in norway they do it. ALso internet for 4,500 downloaders there works =)

On October 14 2011 01:43 Wren wrote:

This, a thousand times.

Having a room wired for "LAN" is such a simple software adjustment, it is infuriating not to see something along these lines implemented yet.

Of course, it seems the problem here is primarily upstream for the broadcast, which is unrelated to battle.net's failings. That CAN be done via sat. truck, which IEM may do next time.

On October 14 2011 01:42 Drakan wrote:
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FELIPE FWAIGHTING!

On October 14 2011 01:42 torg wrote:


So you are saying that streaming + a couple of journalists needs tons of bandwith ?
Ever been at a big LAN in allocated sites? They actually get backup dedicated lines.

In dreamhack in sweeden and Gathering in norway they do it. ALso internet for 4,500 downloaders there works =)

On October 14 2011 01:44 LoCaD wrote:
but, but the internet cant fail over there, we don't have Lani_bot to show us around on Channel 5