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Completely different. A clan usually recruits "expert players", has weekly scrims, etc.

Feel free to weigh in on the advantages of giving people a ton of speed when they do not need it. Bandwidth isn't free. You can not sustain a business with the bandwidth fees that everyone having 1Gbit would produce, without charging EVERYONE a lot more.

Times change. Speed should be adjusted accordingly at the same rates. Once it takes more than 10 or even 50Mbit to check your email and normal browsing, please let me know, I will gladly push for increased speeds for normal residential customers.

Exactly, it keeps out the casual people who will just rack up abuse reports because they are silly horny people. If you want more speed than is required for normal browsing (10Mbit, maybe even 50Mbit, is all the average person will need), you should pay for it.

I am thinking of it from a business standpoint. Would giving so quick speeds to people who don't even need/have any use for it (most of the residential customers) benefit anyone? No. Think, these are the people who run hot-porn.jpg.exe; do you really want them to contribute to the taking-down of websites when they join a botnet? I think the speeds should be offered, but you need to state a good reason for needing it. The majority of people who "I just use the Internets to check my email and facebook" will not ever need these speeds, and allowing them to have it will only rake up abuse problems.

Even if their infrastructure is better, there is only so many tubes to fit across. 10,000 clients (typical for a residential area). Let's assume ~20% have some sort of botnet installed. If the botmaster is ordering "DDoS $site", do you not think that it will cripple the ISP's infrastructure's speed and latency, no matter how much they upgraded it? Idiots are going to get viruses and slow down the system for everyone.

Accidental double-post... ;c

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I learned from the best (YouTube and Ex-Sen. Ted Stevens). What portion of my post might you be referring to? If you're talking about "slowing down the Internet due to a lot more traffic", it's a very real problem.

DSL cables, wut? DSL uses the telephone lines. I assume you meant copper ("cable")? The latencies of short lengths of copper ( Not everyone has a halo around their head like you do Giving even faster speeds to people who don't need it (99.99% of residential customers) will make the Internet overall SLOWER. The main routers where everything must pass through will get more bogged down. I agree that the lines everywhere should be upgraded, but the residential customers have no NEED for a faster connection. Most of the Internet traffic used right now is for P2P. Imagine then, if everyone has a lot faster speeds. What do you think is going to happen? People are going to abuse their connection more, for more and more piracy. The entire series of tubes will slow down, causing larger latencies for everyone, regardless if they are running fiber or copper.

"Fucking signal propagation, how does it work?". The latencies of copper vs fiber are so little (unless it's over a very long distance). I do agree that fiber is a lot better (it's cheaper to buy and maintain as well), but end-users who will mostly just use the speed for piracy and other illegal activities don't need that much.

Don't like it Not some of his better work.

Speed won't have a major difference on latencies, if you already have at least 10Mbit (most ISPs already give that). Only thing that would improve latencies would be direct connections to the servers. Won't ever work, gotta hop through all the routers, which adds on mses of latencies each one. All skiddies getting Gbit will make latencies horrible - all of them will be DoSing everywhere, making the latencies a lot worse for everyone.

http://www.steam-gamers.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39580 Also, same reply. I don't know what the average customer would use all that speed for, except piracy.

This will probably will be considered distasteful by some, but I found it somewhat humorous.

FINE, I WON'T REP++ YOU ANYMORE TO MAKE YOU LOOK BETTER (RED SUCKS). Jackass, jeez! Because they spam to 100/400 posts.

Welcome to 5-years-ago-in-Europe. Many places in Europe have had 1 Gbit, even 10 Gbit in some residential areas for years now. I am somewhat happy it's expensive, less skiddies buying it then.