My connection to the internet just got successfully upgraded. Performance seems as advertised, very good:
What's even more crazy is that if I wanted to invest the extra 15 or so euros a month, I could get 120Mbit on this modem later this year (Maastricht being one of the first cities to get these crazy high speeds) ... and no, that's on a cable modem, not fiber optics! Amazing huh?
And to think, that would make the 100Mbit network card be a bottleneck on the 360, not just on my internal network (where every other device now is 1Gbit, including obviously the cable modem - so I'll soon be getting that Gigabit router as well) but even more crazy, to the internet. Now I seem to recall suggesting this may well happen during the lifecycle of the consoles when discussing this difference here between the PS3 (which does have 1Gbit) and the 360, but to see it actually happen is still amazing. It's the opposite direction of a different feeling I've had, namely that a while ago most of the internet I was working with was only marginally faster than my 2Mbit download speed I got literally over 10 years ago, in the previous Millenium
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Anyway, the upshot here being that I'm hoping this should make it even more likely that Skype podcasts will have the optimum quality - at least my own connection won't be a bottleneck.
I also did an Audacity reliability test, recording 7 (!) hours of my keyboard auto playing, the microphone being open, recording my house's ambient sounds both coming through the mixing board, and recording in the 'what you hear' mode so it also mixes in your computer sounds including Skype calls, soundbites, and so on. Now I just need cables to add in the 360's sound output into the mixing board (for the PS3 I can use the old PS2 cables should I want to do that) and we're good to go there in all manners I can think of.
EDIT: Connection to LA
and New York
What's even more crazy is that if I wanted to invest the extra 15 or so euros a month, I could get 120Mbit on this modem later this year (Maastricht being one of the first cities to get these crazy high speeds) ... and no, that's on a cable modem, not fiber optics! Amazing huh?
And to think, that would make the 100Mbit network card be a bottleneck on the 360, not just on my internal network (where every other device now is 1Gbit, including obviously the cable modem - so I'll soon be getting that Gigabit router as well) but even more crazy, to the internet. Now I seem to recall suggesting this may well happen during the lifecycle of the consoles when discussing this difference here between the PS3 (which does have 1Gbit) and the 360, but to see it actually happen is still amazing. It's the opposite direction of a different feeling I've had, namely that a while ago most of the internet I was working with was only marginally faster than my 2Mbit download speed I got literally over 10 years ago, in the previous Millenium
.Anyway, the upshot here being that I'm hoping this should make it even more likely that Skype podcasts will have the optimum quality - at least my own connection won't be a bottleneck.
I also did an Audacity reliability test, recording 7 (!) hours of my keyboard auto playing, the microphone being open, recording my house's ambient sounds both coming through the mixing board, and recording in the 'what you hear' mode so it also mixes in your computer sounds including Skype calls, soundbites, and so on. Now I just need cables to add in the 360's sound output into the mixing board (for the PS3 I can use the old PS2 cables should I want to do that) and we're good to go there in all manners I can think of.
EDIT: Connection to LA
and New York
