Well it could happen, but it would require utilizing quantum entanglement, so it's a little ahead of us, and would potentially cost billions upon billions of dollars to implement as a network. Actually, that sounds like one of those crazy ideas that marks the beginning of a new technological era. *crosses fingers* That would be an incredible era to live in.
Bandwidth =/= latency That gig still takes time to travel from say, Canada to the UK and back. Electrical signals can only move at a percentage of lightspeed. (something like 60-99%, but I think the actual numbers we experience are a LOT lower due to the various processing components in the systems) That's really ****ing fast, but there's still latency on some scale. Over small distances it's negligible, but even at 100% lightspeed it would still give you 67ms latency sending a signal from one point on Earth to another point on the exact opposite side. Quantum entanglement would give you absolutely 0.0000000 ms of latency. Regardless of distance. Over distances of lightyears. All the way across the Universe.
It was more a suggestion of impending technological advances than the effect of internet speed itself, but I didn't phrase it correctly and truthfully didn't know the difference.
halo is far from a cover based shooter, 99.8% of the time if someone is taking cover, its going around a corner or behind something easily large enough to cover head and horn.
I've gotten plenty of kills by popping somebody on the end of the barrel of their gun. Happens more in non-FW maps, where it's not all solid blocks and platforms. Boneyard is a good example - through the various opening in the fence/wall things.
Yeah... Because even with 1gb speeds available, it most definitely isn't gonna be widespread. The telecom corporations will milk every possible penny they can. Especially in America.
ftfy Telecom up here is just horrible. 60 gb caps for like $50-$60/month. It's retarded. Our government are a bunch of complicit corrupt twits. Bell and Rogers own everything, and they force out competition by buying up all the hardware and it's capacity so there's nothing on the grid available. Any competitors have to sue Bell/Rogers to make some room for them, or set up their own separate network. Which of course is near impossible thanks to the govt working with Bell/Rogers in setting the guidelines. Basically, Bell/Rogers have already bought and set up every location that is zoned for it. ****ing terrible. I want to switch to a local 3rd party group, but they keep getting their service mangled by Rogers. They like move servers without telling anybody and ****, so smaller companies go bankrupt because the millions they invested in running lines and setting up hardware is suddenly useless. Mitt Romney would love it up here.
where is "up here?" in any case, we have cable in the rockies, and it sucks because we paid for 50 mbps, and we are getting 1.5mbps that drop to .01 every 15 minutes.
Canada. One of the worst places in the developed world for internet prices. Telecom in general. PM's an idiot. Basically a sneaky version of Bush. Secret martial law and everything.
And this is why I'm extremely happy to live in Austria... Vienna at that. Cheap phone plans. Cheap internet. Oh, and they're all good plans too.
And you get to live in ****ing Vienna? **** you man. lol Europe is so much more.. balanced or something. Sucks being in a newb country :S And the architecture is so boring here
A rather annoying trend is a lot of the large internet providers limit bandwidth during non-peak hours. I'm lucky if I even maintain my connection to xbox live around 2 in the morning.
Btw, little known fact - Canadians love swearing. We're so polite nobody gets offended. Except Americans. Say "****" on xbl and all of a sudden adults are threatening to report me. In Halo. lol the world is so weird. It's because of the winter. 8 months straight of going, "****itscold, ****itscold, ****itscold, ****itscold, ****itscold, ****itscold..." lol
Dude you have no idea what a real currupt system is until you have one company owning 90% of the lines in the country so other companies have to rent it from them and they keep the number of connections in an area lower than what is actually available to control the price even more.
That's how it is here. Bell owns DSL and half of the cellphone frequencies, and satellite. Rogers has cable internet, TV, and the rest of the cell frequencies. The collaborate their prices every few months, and you can't get a smartphone with service for less than $50/month, and that's bare minimum. 100 minutes, 500 mb data, etc. [br][/br]Edited by merge: When Netflix came here, all the internet usage limits were cut significantly by both companies. No such thing as unlimited here anymore. Pretty much paying by the gig.