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Old 07-08-2009, 04:17 AM
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I wonder if there will be an option to increase/decrease resolution and/or sound quality. That seems like it would help to allow more range in bandwidth utilization. I think 1Mbit is pretty decent, but constantly streaming that much for hours every day could drive up usage quite a bit. I think some providers have caps on how much total bandwidth they allow per month on average. At the rate of 1Mbit per second, that is 60 per minute and 3.6GBits per hour. If someone is putting in 5 hours of play per day average for a month, that is about 540GBit per month, which is quite a bit, lol. Though, I guess if you are playing something that much, you would be better off to actually install the game and play it instead. I would also think those bandwidth costs would drive the cost of such a service to be very pricey. Could you imagine how much it would cost to have just a few thousand players on at all times using that much bandwidth from their hosted servers? Probably not cheap :P
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