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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: VinACE85 on February 11, 2010, 11:11:21 PM
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Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but I thought I remembered Comcast being at the LAN last year and providing (50? Mbit) access, is that right?
If so, are they coming again? This is really just a curiosity thing, not like I spent a lot of time on an outside connection while at the LAN. But I thought I remembered a fairly excellent connection last year.
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As far as I know, they`ll be back this year with the same setup!
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It was two 50Mb modems wasnt it? Sully?
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IIRC yes it was 2 50Mb docsys modems. Nice speedy connection. Actually after that LAN I contacted the comcast rep that was there and dropped my DSL in favor of some nice 16Mb down/6Mb up cable internet.
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It was definitely a sweet connection. Almost felt odd not getting choked out, especially with so many people.
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+1! It rocked, even with the ton of people playing W0W.. :chair: :chair:
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Good stuff. Glad they are coming back this year.
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Good to know as almost all of my games are steam based.
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Steam games with lan play functions will still work offline.
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We started the LAN last year with 2 50mb connections that were load balanced, but the NIC I was using for the second connection kept crapping out on me, so I pulled that out of the mix late Friday night, so we truly only used 1 50mb connection last year for most of the time. This year I didn't have time to really test a load balanced setup, so we'll just be going with the single 50mb connection again this time.
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which is funny because I STILL had to get a few of my steam games AND I bought one (either left 4 dead or lost planet was on special at that particular time) and all the downloads were lightning fast.
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which is funny because I STILL had to get a few of my steam games AND I bought one (either left 4 dead or lost planet was on special at that particular time) and all the downloads were lightning fast.
That's because Sully is the EFFING MAN!
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That's because Sully is the EFFING MAN!
QFT
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That's because Sully is the EFFING MAN!
QFT
Seriously, what other LAN can you go to and get 100Mbps of internets? Just sayin...
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Well, if Google has their way with that 1gig internet.....
HMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!
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Well, if Google has their way with that 1gig internet.....
HMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!
Have fun waiting for that... Its limited distro and you need to vote for your city w/ a written reason on why they should be there...
In the mean time Ill enjoy the 100Mbps-ness that Sully brings to the table.
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Yes, I know, but I thought I'd bring a little sarcasm to the table.
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Yes, I know, but I thought I'd bring a little sarcasm to the table.
You mean like your signature?
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Righty-o, good chap!
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So, I just picked up the modem for the LAN this weekend....
(http://results.speedtest.comcast.net/result/33226452.png) (http://speedtest.comcast.net/)
What do you say to that, broccoli?
Apparently the Geolocation for the IP is way off because it thinks I'm in Kansas, so you can ignore that 1200 mile part.
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I say that's some s00perfast pr0nz!
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That's freaking sweet, is what that is. That also seems to qualify for a, "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto."
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Super Duper Interwebernets! ....of Doom..... to the Extreme... 3000... Ultra?
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For more of a real world test, I installed UT3 over Steam.
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So does that mean I can play BC2 at the lan?
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So does that mean I can play BC2 at the lan?
Nope. Beta is over and the game doesn't come out till after the LAN. ;)
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Imma gonna get my WoW on!
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Don't make me put up the WoW port blocks!
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So does that mean I can play BC2 at the lan?
Nope. Beta is over and the game doesn't come out till after the LAN. ;)
Could the timing be any worse on the date the demo stops & the game is released? Why would they stop the demo a week before the game is released?
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Wings of Prey just went on sale for the week/end regular 49.99 now only 24.99
I enjoyed the trial version and I am a sucker for WW2 fighter sims so i bought it. Takes some monkeying around to get the stick setup right but after that its smooth sailing.
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Wings of Prey just went on sale for the week/end regular 49.99 now only 24.99
I enjoyed the trial version and I am a sucker for WW2 fighter sims so i bought it. Takes some monkeying around to get the stick setup right but after that its smooth sailing.
Yeah I bought that too. But it only allows for 3 installs and now way to get your key back like GTA4. I would be up to play some of that. Why in the hell they decided to go from 10 installs to 3 is beyond me.
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Could the timing be any worse on the date the demo stops & the game is released? Why would they stop the demo a week before the game is released?
The reason they gave for stopping it was so that EA had time to prep the servers for launch.
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The servers will still buckle under the pressure, just watch. :-D