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On home networks its not going to work very well unless you've got FIOS, and who would really want a system that can't be used if an internet connection for whatever reason isn't available and in high bandwidth?

You can't play anything on it if the internet's not fast enough. You can't even play by yourself.]]>Sep 3rd 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
were are you getting this info from? the press release? or are you just making it up as you go along, because I'm fairly certain you haven't tried it yet.]]>Sep 3rd 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
Each one I've stayed in had either Cable or FIOS with speeds over 30mbps Up/ 30 down.

Last time I was in China I stayed in Holiday Inn Hang Zhou and I was getting 26mbps both ways. ]]>Sep 3rd 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
So what you're saying is that the hotel has Comcast and that every room shares the bandwidth and you can get 30up/30down?

The smell of B.S. is overpowering.

The only way this is happening is if every room is vacant except yours...

I too stay in Holiday Inn's...Executive Club Level rooms are not any faster... they still share the same internet access...]]>Sep 3rd 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/SD graphics are said to need 1.5 Mbps and HD (720p60) need about 5 Mbps.

Unless you're living in 1999, these speeds shouldn't seem ludicrous to you]]>Sep 3rd 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/As long as they can match online console gaming they're fine. Have you EVER played COD? That's pretty easy to match.]]>Sep 3rd 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
Thanks for the good times]]>Sep 3rd 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/

cause i already signed up, if you must know]]>Sep 3rd 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
*cough*freehealthcare*cough*]]>Sep 3rd 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
*cough*cough*VAT* "Aw, man!"

Everybody pays somehow.]]>Sep 3rd 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
I heard the extreme views they have on free healthcare on the BBC.]]>Sep 3rd 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
Stupid 'fair use' download limits (40GB a month is typical) and poor pings (~100ms, or around 6 frames too late on a 60Hz game) make this a distant dream for us. Things have actually gone backwards here. ISP's are slowing people down and cutting people off left right and centre for 'disproportionate usage'. OnLive could be great, but not for us, not for a while.

As for healthcare, well, it's a national institution, innit. Ask 100 people here what they think of it and I reckon 70 will say it's a bit crap. Ask 100 people if they think we should scrap it and 99 will say never. It doesn't work very well and it's costing us a bomb, but it's always there for us, usually when we really need it.

In regards to the cost though, I really don't know where the money's all going in the British NHS. Maybe it's not the best example of National Healthcare. The French seem to do a better job with less staff and less money. So too do a couple of other European nations. Certainly we Brits aren't a terribly efficient bunch. Probably all those managers. Healthcare, banking, and probably telecoms.]]>Sep 3rd 2009 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/--- 79.99.--.--. ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 17.953/22.634/28.372/4.024 ms]]>Sep 4th 2009 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 4th 2009 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/No one has the bandwidth for this shit. And no ISP is going to allow that much data transfer.
]]>Sep 3rd 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
I'm sure OnLive will stream Bejeweled flawlessly ;-)


]]>Sep 3rd 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
A ping to my country's main internet-exchange (I'm about 200 kilometers away) over a standard cable modem:

100 packets transmitted, 100 received, 0% packet loss, time 99009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 8.159/9.852/13.957/1.246 ms

and that's roundtrip time. Is that even noticeable ? ]]>Sep 3rd 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/









*those living in datacenters outside the US need not apply]]>Sep 3rd 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.bungie.net/forums/topics.aspx?forumID=10]]>Sep 3rd 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/Sep 3rd 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/03/onlive-goes-onbeta-wants-you-to-help-by-playing-games/
Haven't seen anything from them. =(]]>Sep 3rd 2009 10:46AM