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Denver, 4:43 AM
Mon Nov 9
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10/19/09
Although, I must say that a 955kbps downstream by today's standards is slooooow... I can't remember, are you US or AUS? #dashboardupdate
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Or, you need to buffer in something bigger than the available ram, such as a hdd. Or have more compression than your usual processors can handle.
Incidentally, I've been streaming HD video to my high fidelity EeePC for a while now, so I can watch anime in my working room. Give me a medal. #dashboardupdate
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Though, renaming it the *Zune* marketplace won't make much sense outside the US since you can't buy Zune's anywhere but America... #dashboardupdate
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What is your net speed btw? That would be useful for folks wanting to guage if they can run the HD streaming.
Kinda sucks you couldn't test it, a quality check would be nice. #dashboardupdate
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And yeah your net is pretty slow, that's worse than my mums and I hate using net at her house, to the stage I'm debating using m.kotkau.com sometimes :P #dashboardupdate
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The expensive 50mbps is £33($54) And their trailing 100mbps, but don't know the price yet.
As I said, US net is horrendously expensive. #dashboardupdate
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At the price of $20 USD! D:
10/19/09
We also have Charter but there's no guarantee that I would get higher speed then what I already got with their 5/7 mbps service since the main server or junction is far away. Plus most of my friends have a lot of down time and or slower connection than me on peak hours.
I pray that fiber optics comes to our area but all the providers in our area are too cheap to replace the really old lines in our town. #dashboardupdate
10/19/09
Not to mention I have a cruddy Netgear router too :P #dashboardupdate
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10/19/09
You should NOT have run this article!
Update:
You should not have run that headline!
Perhaps this service will suck for everyone but maybe it won't. Knowing that you have a terrible connection, you should not have written a headline that makes it look like the service failed you.
10/19/09
I'd argue that testing the ability for the service to work using a standard cable modem, wifi, and the XBox's wifi adapter from a separate room is the best test to get real world results.
Anything else and you are not providing feedback that is useful to most of your readers.
Very few (if any) of us game at a desk with an ethernet connection hooked into an business level ISP.
A lot more us have modems sitting with the PC in the office/study/whatever and our XBox running wirelessly from the TV/living room. #dashboardupdate
10/19/09
I don't think wireless is the issue here because I can move several hundred K/s on wireless and I don't even have N.
I think his connection sucks (he can't even use matchmaking in Halo 3).
I think the headline should reflect this ("What didn't work FOR ME")...something like that.
For all I know, nobody except the $100/mo ultra-internet types can use instant streaming.
Totilo has a sub-standard internet connection. He has no business giving the impression that these results are not connected to his particular situation! #dashboardupdate
10/19/09
Totilos connection isn't great, which I wager many people will not have the greatest connection, so its a fair warning - get the best net you can or this service will be locked out from you. #dashboardupdate
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Sorry if I poked or singed you with my pitchfork and torch!
I guess I forgot to mention that I felt the article was fair but that the headline was misleading.
Let's all hold e-hands and sing for Stephen hath fixed it all!!! #dashboardupdate
10/19/09
You are right to suggest that using the latest and greatest isn't a fair reviewing practice either.
I think that most people's connections can allow matchmaking to work but maybe I'm being naive.
I got the impression that Mr. Totilo's setup may be a bit sub-par... #dashboardupdate
10/19/09
And I'm assuming TV shows I've purchased on the Zune Marketplace already will be available to me through this? (Even though I can just stream them from my PC to my 360, it seems like a logical feature to have.) #dashboardupdate
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It all makes perfect sense, except the TV model number. I have an older 32" SDTV which I can't just move about to read the label on the back, so I ended up entering "don't know".
The good news was the speedtest results: over 75mbit/s down and over 46mbit/s up.
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So, yeah, I originally thought the Facebook & Twitter integration on 360 would be a neat feature, but if I'm not going to be legitimately using the 360 until next year, regularly, then I have no need to test the services. Best to leave it to people who actually will. No offense to Twit or Face, because I use both :)
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I don't even use my 360 in what I'd consider heavy gaming. It just so happened that every time I went to use it for gaming, whaddya know, a pretty red ring.
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Now if they had said improvements to the dashboard, like quicker loading speed and so on, i'd be right on board.
10/14/09
*Fruit hurled at stage*
Yeah, I know, I guess I'm a horrible person for thinking that Microsoft giving my console extra features that I don't have to pay a dime for may not be a bad thing. I do understand that making you have gold for this may be annoying, but I don't see how you DON'T have gold already anyways.....the 360 pretty much revolves around the service.
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I leave messages for friend all the time now.
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