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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2013 IV - Christmas in July is over, back to real life
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You should have kept adding and checked out.
MMBosstones86
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Hey dog, Wireless is piss poor. Only worth for checking emails on tablets and shit like that.
No wonder we were having problems on the Castle Crashers stream. You were on Wifi? Cmon now...
God thing you manned up.
I should be counting down the weeks until I'm on fibre, but my area's ready-for-service date was pushed back from this November to next February, and then again to Q4. For now I have to put up with this:
On the bright side, I don't have a download limit, but it's a moot point as the total cost for the connection (plan + mandatory line rental) is $100, and if I were on fibre, I'd be paying the very same amount for 100Mb down/40Mb up with a monthly quota of 1TB.
Edit: I can churn to an unlimited ADSL2+ plan at another cheap-and-somewhat-nasty ISP, which would bump up my upload to ~1Mbit, but I need to time it correctly so I'm not charged another, unnecessary month by current ISP. It's something I plan on doing within the next month or two. Said plan is $10 cheaper, too, which is a nice bonus.
On the bright side, I don't have a download limit, but it's a moot point as the total cost for the connection (plan + mandatory line rental) is $100, and if I were on fibre, I'd be paying the very same amount for 100Mb down/40Mb up with a monthly quota of 1TB.
Edit: I can churn to an unlimited ADSL2+ plan at another cheap-and-somewhat-nasty ISP, which would bump up my upload to ~1Mbit, but I need to time it correctly so I'm not charged another, unnecessary month by current ISP. It's something I plan on doing within the next month or two. Said plan is $10 cheaper, too, which is a nice bonus.
RibbedHero
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Speedtest battle.
30m wireless connection:
30m wireless connection:
RibbedHero
Member
Everyone knows the Nordics and universities are excluded from speedtest battles. Dems the rules.
From the latest Wasteland project update. Wasteland 1 getting a separate release on GOG/Steam.
Apparently all backers were already getting a copy for free, I did not know that. Now it is a separate entry entirely, and they are going to sell the original game as well.
In other news, I finally bit the bullet and got my computer connected over Ethernet.
I went out and picked up a concrete/masonry drill bit, cut through the house, fished the cable, liberally applied caulk, and now I'm connected.
I contacted my landlord before I did all of this of course.
My router is really old, and the wireless strength isn't so good. Where the cable actually came into the house was literally at the opposite end from my office, so my connection was pretty poor.
Went from about 800kb/s
That's an insane increase. You went from 800 kilobits to 6400 kilobits. That's crazy.
I'm from Brazil and I'm on home fiber:
Did I do good?
Fucking bullshit upload this is almost unacceptable. Except it's like 5 times better than the alternative.
edit: WIRELESS IS FOR CHUMPS!
RibbedHero
Member
Attempt #2, still wireless, but with an A+ grade:
Yeah, Brazil counts
I'm from Brazil and I'm on home fiber:
Did I do good?
Fucking bullshit upload this is almost unacceptable. Except it's like 5 times better than the alternative.
Yeah, Brazil counts
RazorbackDB
Member
come at me GAF
intheinbetween
Member
not bad here in Spain
Chance Hale
Member
Just got a email stating my Oculus Rift is going to ship within the next 1-2 days
Edit:
I have Uverse in Texas. Awful, slow speeds for high cost but for whatever reason the family sticks with them. Believe my dad gets a discount through work. We never actually get that download speed either, really need to talk to them about switching or calling ATT and complaining.
Edit:
I have Uverse in Texas. Awful, slow speeds for high cost but for whatever reason the family sticks with them. Believe my dad gets a discount through work. We never actually get that download speed either, really need to talk to them about switching or calling ATT and complaining.
dark_inferno
Member
I want more.
Out_Of_Ammo
Member
I guess mine's average.
Fun fact: Backing up my collection of Saoirse gifs to "the cloud" would take more than four hours with my current connection.
I'm greatly anticipating the consumer version. 1080p VR goodness. The first thing I'll be doing when it's in my hands is firing up Mirror's Edge just to jump off a building.
(Doing the same with my avatars would take just over 16 minutes.)
Just got a email stating my Oculus Rift is going to ship within the next 1-2 days
I'm greatly anticipating the consumer version. 1080p VR goodness. The first thing I'll be doing when it's in my hands is firing up Mirror's Edge just to jump off a building.
MMBosstones86
Member
oh god we are on our way to community.
My upload is larger than my download? Wut?
That upload speed is obscene.
I'll just go ahead and assume that all the piss poor scores are coming from 'murica.
Yeah, I don't get that.
Is that your work ISP? Because business internet tends to have nice upload rates if you need to host large amounts of data.
My upload is larger than my download? Wut?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Hey guys how long would it take you to download your Steam library on your connection and, if you were paying by the mb, how much would it theoretically cost?
RibbedHero
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The Van Helsing game on sale...is it any good?
intheinbetween
Member
amazing tiny game, deserves much more love
apparently it is, during the Summer Seal I noticed many people were interested in it and they said it was quite good.
Joe Molotov
Member
made it to the jungle in spelunky!
Damn bro, why the racism?
Yeah, I was kind of surprised to find the leaderboards so empty.
All the impressions I've come across have expressed pleasant surprise at just how solid it is. The campaign is also rather meaty, too: I recall one GAFer saying he was around 15 hours in and had yet to finish it.
You made me start this you bastard.
Chance Hale
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SanguineShark
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Try either disabling or enabling your vsync. Saw this mentioned earlier while browsing around for a previous issue. Seems to have fixed it for them.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Wait, what?
where
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