5000 seconds or one hour and 23 minutes.
Cheers
One of the B3D posters (can't remember his name atm, sorry) was angry about the DRM change because he could not use discs anymore to feed the digital library. When asked about why not just download the game, he said that he has a monthly bandwidth cap and downloading just 1-2 big games could be to much. He also said, that this is the norm in the US.
So I am just curious and have a question to our fellow US-B3Ders: is this really common? Do you have bandwidth caps for you high speed internet? To be honest, I can't really believe it.
Believe 10gb a month
out of interest with a 16mb connection how long would it take to download 10gb
For comparison this is the connection I'm on... And this is a good day! This is the about the average for this entire area.
I've got a Scientific Atlanta DPC2100r2. Supposedly it's a DOCSIS 2.0 modem, but Cox has been wanting me to upgrade(not free) to a DOCSIS 3.0 modem so I can get full speed. No idea why I'm not getting 25Mb/s unless my modem is so old(about 4.5yrs) it needs replacing.
Tommy McClain
Hey, I feel your pain. I haven't had that slow internet since 1999.
My point was: While you suffer (horribly), 88% of Britain are in less pain and have more bandwidth than what MS mandated for the cloud based features.
IMO, 90% makes it fair for MS to use a 1.5Mbps bandwidth requirement as a premise for next gen experiences.
Cheers
I'm paying for Cox's 2nd cheapest tier & I'm suppose to get 25Mb/s download & 5Mb/s upload. Unfortunately I need a newer modem to take advantage of it. Anyway, here's what I got on the test...
I'm in a tiny suburb of the 2nd largest city in Arkansas: For Smith. Feds consider my county rural still.
Tommy McClain
For comparison this is the connection I'm on... And this is a good day! This is the about the average for this entire area.
He never said it was only that SpeedTest isn't accurate (which it isn't as it's self-selective). TBH all these Speedtest results are meaningless to the topic as the sample is too small and not representative (specialist tech site more likely to have more expensive, faster internet than average). There exist enough reports with decent sample sets to paint an accurate picture.And that's obviously representative of the whole of the UK...
Also, Liverpool, lol, BT probably don't want their expensive fibre cables to get nicked!
lol, .
Liverpool actually has excellent broadband coverage in general, and there are tons of options.
http://www.cable.co.uk/local/broadband/merseyside/liverpool/
Yeah I know, that's what annoys me. If the dude is too cheap to pay for Infinity or a LLU version of it, don't blame the infrastructure, the UK is actually moving in the right direction on broadband the competition between BT, Sky and Virgin has basically allowed 70-80% of people in the country to get at least ~30Mb down which is insane. It's just up to people to decide whether they think it's worth the extra money or not.
Yeah sure all those backward people in Scottish highlands and middle England have different needs and uses from you fancy pants city life. There are millions of us, do you think we all still live in fucking caves? I didn't even need to look at your speedtest to know you must be a Londoner with that attitude.Sure there will be a few heavy users, but there are exchanges in parts of middle England and the Scottish Highlands where bb penetration is below 20%, most people there have absolutely no use for 10Mb bb let alone 40/80/160Mb bb. I can see where Fujitsu were coming from personally.
It's great to know that those who have get even more and push up the "national average" while some of us are still stuck on shitty 3 Mb/s paying the same as you.On a side note, I had a letter from BT saying that my exchange is being converted to FTTH soon and the area will get 160Mb and upwards when they do it.