If You Can't Run OnLive, You Have a Below-Average Internet Connection - 56k

Well,my Internet connection is far below-average compared to some of you:

But still,as a high-end rig owner,can't say I care much about On-Live,the service would only offer me much inferior experience that the one I already have.Also,Internet speed isn't the only thing On-Live relies on,like some already mentioned.It's a good thing for some ppl(not me!),but latency problems and ppl with slow speed will heavily delay it from becoming truly relevant,and Im actually glad since I can't stand the idea of cloud gaming,the idea of owning nothing but a permission to play a game I purchased while its somewhere far outside of my reach and control.

Onlive is crap if you're far away from their servers, playing with high ping on single player games is pretty damn annoying.

cain006

leaving stuff to download over night isn't tough...? and I don't have any better options either. $70/month for my 1.5 is the best I can settle on..

OnLive would suck on a 1.5 and it would still suck on 150.

[QUOTE="cain006"]

Onlive is crap if you're far away from their servers, playing with high ping on single player games is pretty damn annoying.

Rikusaki

Unless you're one of the 6.6 billion that doesn't live in the states :|

Just poking fun at your US-centric assumptions.

I just wanted to post mine because its finally above 10 Mb/s

I just wanted to post mine because its finally above 10 Mb/s

edinsftw

San Jose resident?! *High Fives*

Onlive sucks when you able to render games in real time thats has much better quality

vs

nailed it

[QUOTE="edinsftw"]

I just wanted to post mine because its finally above 10 Mb/s

verbtex

San Jose resident?! *High Fives*

It's surprising why some people have posted high download speeds but bad upload speeds.

I have a 25 Mb/s download and 25 Mb/s upload connection.

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What is it with ISPs and restricting upload speeds?

Don't think I can run it. Damn.

[QUOTE="freedomfreak"]

nailed it

Desmonic

Way to go =D

Also, love me some Darkness 2. The game is so fun and addictive! Still have to play the Vendettas though.

Don't think I can run it. Damn.

D4W1L4H

That's some high ping, considering the DL/UL :o

On campus connection?

lol

[QUOTE="verbtex"]

[QUOTE="edinsftw"]

I just wanted to post mine because its finally above 10 Mb/s

peterw007

San Jose resident?! *High Fives*

It's surprising why some people have posted high download speeds but bad upload speeds.

I have a 25 Mb/s download and 25 Mb/s upload connection.

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What is it with ISPs and restricting upload speeds?

high upload speeds aren't necessary to most people.

ISPs usually offer a symmetrical option (like yours) with their asymmetrical packages for the consumer to choose. It's not necessarily a restriction tbh.

edit: I'm probably not much for clarification. I think this link sums it up with a couple of decent examples.

http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/asymmetric-communications

Can I own my Games and can I play them Offline?

No?

Is Wifi avalible everywhere and free? No?

Why is your Avatar Rarity and not Pinkie especcially after yesterday's episode?

The World may Never Know, except that Onlive is still not the standard todays games should go by.

[QUOTE="D4W1L4H"]

Don't think I can run it. Damn.

Gxgear

That's some high ping, considering the DL/UL :o

On campus connection?

Living on campus like a boss.

Goes home on break...

F*** dat.

I think i'll avoid online.

Onlive isn't available in australia so can't really try it out.

My speed. It really blows.

Sorry that 99% of the people who don't live in a city larger than 10k usually don't have many choices but slow DSL.

I don't use my devices as dumb terminals.

I must possess the code and run it locally.

I also don't do MMO's and DRM.

Code -> In my possesion -> Running on my machine -> my code, my machine.

I don't care how good it streams, I will never use OnLive, it is against my religion.

OnLive is such a huge rip off, you don't even own any of the games you play on there. Instead you just pay a rental fee to be able to stream games with bad graphics. It's an even bigger rip off than XBL! But at least with XBL you can at least own half of your game.

Don't blame gamers, blame the goddamned government. It's not my fault that my area doesn't have access to unlimited amounts of bandwidth and 10s/100s of MB per second. When it does become available for EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE and the gamers don't subscribe to it, then you can blame the gamers. ;)

[QUOTE="Gxgear"]

[QUOTE="D4W1L4H"]

Don't think I can run it. Damn.

D4W1L4H

That's some high ping, considering the DL/UL :o

On campus connection?

Living on campus like a boss.

That's not the dorm connection is it? From what I've heard those usually sucks.

OnLive only requires 2.5Mbps to stream 720p.

This is well below our national average and the global household download index.

Me?

2.5Mbps is laughable. Piece of cake.

I just can't belive how many of you gamers have such slow connections.

How long does it take to download something from Steam?

A PS3 update? DLC? How do you all do it?

Rikusaki

Why insult other peoples internet connections? 2.5 mps is the fastest internet I can get where I live.

[QUOTE="D4W1L4H"]

[QUOTE="Gxgear"]

That's some high ping, considering the DL/UL :o

On campus connection?

Gxgear

Living on campus like a boss.

That's not the dorm connection is it? From what I've heard those usually sucks.

In the dorms we have a slower connection, but it's still pretty good. abou 150 mbps DL and 35 UL.

[QUOTE="Gxgear"]

[QUOTE="D4W1L4H"]

Living on campus like a boss.

D4W1L4H

That's not the dorm connection is it? From what I've heard those usually sucks.

In the dorms we have a slower connection, but it's still pretty good. abou 150 mbps DL and 35 UL.

[QUOTE="D4W1L4H"]

[QUOTE="Gxgear"]

That's not the dorm connection is it? From what I've heard those usually sucks.

jonathant5

In the dorms we have a slower connection, but it's still pretty good. abou 150 mbps DL and 35 UL.

This could explain why 360 online sucks.

In the past day and a half I downloaded over 100gigs of data.RyviusARC

What the heck were you downloading? 1080p porn? :shock: (Better share if true :P)

This does not however explain why pS3 kids are so much worse at CoD than Xbox ones.

I have a 50 megabit internet with 15 megabit upload... it still is input laggy, they don't even allow pings to see the whole trip latency. Onlive is only feasible if you have less than 10ms to their servers imo. Even at university it still sucks. Obviously the limitation becomes the speed of light at this point.JigglyWiggly_

I download 20GB games at 200kbps, like a boss.

feelsbadman, i'm not even using wireless. and on my galaxy nexus with verizon 4G LTE i can get like effin' 50Mpbs.

OnLive is utter crap anyway. Blurry-ass games with console graphics is poop.

[QUOTE="D4W1L4H"]

[QUOTE="Gxgear"]

That's not the dorm connection is it? From what I've heard those usually sucks.

Desmonic

In the dorms we have a slower connection, but it's still pretty good. abou 150 mbps DL and 35 UL.

oh god, you're killing me now.

anything above 10 mb is awesome:|:(:cry:

I download 20GB games at 200kbps, like a boss.

el3m2tigre

try 90-96 kbps. Although I never tried anything larger than ~3Gb demos back when I was dealing with the lowest DSL offered.

has anyone here ever played MP with a 56k(dial-up)? good thing I was a dumb kid who had never experienced anything better back then......