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Geek Culture / The future of gaming! (No, really)

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 29th Mar 2009 03:04 Edited at: 29th Mar 2009 03:07
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You'd leave the UK because of the internet? I've not found it to be all that bad.BTW when I first used speedtest I took a screeny and uploaded because I was unsure on how it worked...but let him show his image from speedtest if it's that important

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 29th Mar 2009 03:07
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Well, it's not the only reason, but the sluggishness, the harsh inescapable download limits, the expense, the unreliability, Phorm... there's more than crappy internet making me want to jump ship.

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RalphY
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Posted: 29th Mar 2009 15:20 Edited at: 29th Mar 2009 15:34
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hmm at the moment:


However my usual:


That's part of the problem with this, it assumes that peoples internet connection is constant, which from my experience it never is.

[Edit] To add the distance to London is actually ~48 miles from here not 100.


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draknir_
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Posted: 29th Mar 2009 15:52
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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 29th Mar 2009 19:40
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My internet is very inconsistent but it's never lower than 13mbps. It's still usually about 28mbps. Right now it's 20 though.
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Jeku
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Posted: 29th Mar 2009 20:13
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Since everyone else is doing it:



Nothing amazing, as this is just the burst speed. It's supposed to always be at least 10Mb/s.

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Satchmo
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The thing is, yesterday I was getting less than 1.5mb/s, my internet is very inconsistent.

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AndrewT
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 01:58
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I win!



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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 02:01 Edited at: 30th Mar 2009 02:02
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That can't be right. KB/s rather than MB/s surely? Just did a test download to compare the results and got 11kb/s. Perhaps some naughty person at TalkTalk is giving traffic to speed testing sites priority?

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the_winch
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 02:26
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It's Megabits not megabytes.

By way of demonstration, he emitted a batlike squeak that was indeed bothersome.
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puppyofkosh
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 02:28
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Oh so that's what 1/8 of a megabyte?
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aluseus GOD
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 03:24
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Technically its mebibit

My eyes hurt. And AUS rocks. More people should try making quality 2d games.
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Samoz83
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 19:24
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I think i win

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AlexI
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 19:27 Edited at: 30th Mar 2009 19:27
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No you have low upload and high download I have both high so I win


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 19:45
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You still haven't posted one from speedtest.net and so you're still lying in my view. It's not difficult, you're given a link by speedtest.net.

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Samoz83
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 19:55
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Mines not real I believe Kaspersky interferers with speedtest.net and makes the results go crazy, normally im around 5Mb down and 140Kb up

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bitJericho
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 19:57
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I'm beginning to think this is mebibits/s

Lame.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 30th Mar 2009 20:05
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Quote: "I'm beginning to think this is mebibits/s"

Hehe my cute little mebibits are fast today. It must be what I am feeding them.

What a word.

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