EPTRegardless of how good it would be for SEA/Australian-based tournaments, why would you want to segregate the community when our player pool isn't large enough to nuture any sort of significant improvement?
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snexwang
Australia224 Posts
Regardless of how good it would be for SEA/Australian-based tournaments, why would you want to segregate the community when our player pool isn't large enough to nuture any sort of significant improvement? | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
Internode, iinet are perfect candidates for putting up a server. BTW 200ms ping is perfectly playable. You peeps are spoiled. | ||
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Ryder.
1117 Posts
On February 04 2012 13:52 haduken wrote: Why do they have to deal with Telstra? Internode, iinet are perfect candidates for putting up a server. BTW 200ms ping is perfectly playable. You peeps are spoiled. Isn't it because Telstra owns most/all of the cables? All the other companies just 'rent' them from Telstra AFAIK | ||
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FXOpen
Australia1844 Posts
On February 04 2012 13:52 haduken wrote: Why do they have to deal with Telstra? Internode, iinet are perfect candidates for putting up a server. BTW 200ms ping is perfectly playable. You peeps are spoiled. Those companies still have to use Telstra infrastructure most of the time. Telstra has a monopoly there is no way around their bandwidth costs | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On February 04 2012 13:59 Ryder. wrote: Isn't it because Telstra owns most/all of the cables? All the other companies just 'rent' them from Telstra AFAIK Telstra doesn't own everything. They are required by law to distribute to other ISPs at wholesale costs. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On February 04 2012 14:10 FXOpen wrote: Those companies still have to use Telstra infrastructure most of the time. Telstra has a monopoly there is no way around their bandwidth costs Telstra has a monopoly but only for the copper lines. B.Net and game server are web applications... how does Telstra have any leverage over this? It's like the water companies saying to a restaurant that they can't use the water to wash dishes because they own the pipes going into the restaurant. | ||
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DeckstreaM
Australia5 Posts
tl;dr australian governance (includes, governments, telecommunications, power, water etc.) = retards | ||
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Sickkiee
Japan607 Posts
NBN is our future, as mining isn't always going to be there. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On February 04 2012 17:02 DeckstreaM wrote: face it, in australia we have third world internet compared to the major economic powers as we're supposedly to be part of. the governance of certain commodities such as electricity, water, public transport, communications are ALL subpar as they should be as a lot of australian companies have contributed worldwide with our technologies, e.g. octopus card in hk, but we fail to deliver on our own turf. tl;dr australian governance (includes, governments, telecommunications, power, water etc.) = retards The public transport minister in my state should go to jail for his mishandling. Can't believe they wasted 1 billion on something so simple. | ||
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Sanchonator
Australia490 Posts
On February 04 2012 17:02 DeckstreaM wrote: face it, in australia we have third world internet compared to the major economic powers as we're supposedly to be part of. the governance of certain commodities such as electricity, water, public transport, communications are ALL subpar as they should be as a lot of australian companies have contributed worldwide with our technologies, e.g. octopus card in hk, but we fail to deliver on our own turf. tl;dr australian governance (includes, governments, telecommunications, power, water etc.) = retards NBN will fix the net problems assuming it continues as is and isnt scrapped or some stupid shit @iinet/internode server thing : when blizzard were talking about an australian server with telstra and all that crap internode actually offered to host it iirc, no idea what happened with that but im fairly sure it was an option | ||
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paralleluniverse
4065 Posts
On February 04 2012 16:51 haduken wrote: Telstra doesn't own everything. They are required by law to distribute to other ISPs at wholesale costs. Telstra owns all the cables, so they can charge other ISPs ridiculous prices. http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=39376 wrote: We have received some initial prices on hosting boxes in Australia: Our boxes on average use 4,000-5,000 GB of data transfer a month, we get these boxes for roughly $200 USD each in EU/USA Provider 1: $1250 per month for hardware, $11,250.00 per month for bandwidth per box, box would support 110 concurrent users Provider 2: $1100 per month for hardware, $22,500 per month for bandwidth per box, would support about 220 concurrent users. We have also made inquiries at Internode and are awaiting a quote back from them (it was requested last week Tuesday). So as you can see, the economics of hosting boxes in AU is just not there currently. http://games.on.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=252&t=171568&sid=c5613775800ba2393dacdd2fc0f246b3 | ||
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Phenny
Australia1435 Posts
For the record I live just north of Sydney (central coast), Telstra ISP with 130 ping to sea and 200-250 to NA. | ||
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haduken
Australia8267 Posts
On February 04 2012 20:49 paralleluniverse wrote: Telstra owns all the cables, so they can charge other ISPs ridiculous prices. http://games.on.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=252&t=171568&sid=c5613775800ba2393dacdd2fc0f246b3 Dear lord, that can't be market pricing. | ||
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Nomad123
95 Posts
then australians play on NA. problem solved? | ||
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Onlinejaguar
Australia2823 Posts
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