Dial Up Users Please Stand Up!
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2009-12-21 14:51 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I am not on dialup, but they probably aren't posting because the page is still loading.
Liberty
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Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)
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Originally Posted by milk_weasel
I am not on dialup, but they probably aren't posting because the page is still loading.
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Formerly known as YFNDBA
I use dial up. Been a member in good standing since 2004. Even got my 60 months badge too AND a second account!:P I live in a very 'regional' area that has
nothing else...
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Wild Childs ((Level 50 Nin/SR Stalker. Virtue))
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<Kind of odd to have an informal poll regarding what could be a determination of bandwidth requirements for the game's near future, during a time of year when less people than normal are likely to read the forums and respond if applicable - I would think the results would be even more skewed than normal, perhaps purposefully?>
Might be up for a month or more. I hope so otherwise... I'm gonna be a VERY upset puppy.
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Wild Childs ((Level 50 Nin/SR Stalker. Virtue))
Quote="Not Racist. Not violent. Just choosing to no longer be silent."
Like Fido1, I am in a semi-rural area and still on dial-up.
"I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes."
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Possibly they are looking for some people who are on dial-up so that they can test something? Or possibly they have a secondary questionnaire that they'll be giving to the people who respond?|
Originally Posted by Obsidius
<Kind of odd to have an informal poll regarding what could be a determination of bandwidth requirements for the game's near future, during a time of year when less people than normal are likely to read the forums and respond if applicable - I would think the results would be even more skewed than normal, perhaps purposefully?>
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Since they have the ability to do actual polls, this thread has a purpose other than just generating a simple number. Oh, and on topic: I am not on dial-up. There is a slim chance that I might have to go back to it in 6-8 months, but only if my job situation doesn't improve and in that case I probably won't still be a player...
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Fair point. I'll stop derailing the thread now.
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Originally Posted by Zengar
Possibly they are looking for some people who are on dial-up so that they can test something? Or possibly they have a secondary questionnaire that they'll be giving to the people who respond?
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I'm also in the boonies and on dial-up.
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I use dial up when I visit my in-laws. That means for about three weeks a year, including the 10 days that start tomorrow. I've almost given up on CoH while there though, except for market watch and day job shifts, because the dial-up experience is less than optimal (understatement).
I'm sure she's not asking in an effort to locate a few lower bandwidth people to help beta test Going Rogue. 
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
I've moved on to Diablo 3, TopDoc-1304
I'm not in the boonies, but I occasionally use Cell-Phone tethering over the Alltel (now Verizon) network to play.
I have a friend in the game (not sure he ever reads the forums) on dial up. He lives up in the mountains and can't get any other kind of internet.
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I am currently on DSL, but may soon be moving to a Dial-up only area and sometimes use my cell to connect my laptop to the net if I am out and about.
So... why the question?
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I use dialup to access if I am at my parents' houses.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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We're not sure. Hopefully it is just to round up testers for GR and not something more..sinister..
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Wild Childs ((Level 50 Nin/SR Stalker. Virtue))
Quote="Not Racist. Not violent. Just choosing to no longer be silent."
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This, but I'm not sure you can call it "dial-up" when the cell phone has less lag and a more reliable connection than the local cable company (sadly, I'm not kidding - roadrunner cuts out multiple times per day) while maintaining roughly 1.2Mb down.
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Originally Posted by je_saist
I'm not in the boonies, but I occasionally use Cell-Phone tethering over the Alltel (now Verizon) network to play.
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Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
it has gone from unconscionable to downright appalling that we have no way of measuring our characters' wetness.
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Originally Posted by Brillig
It's hard to beat the entertainment value of Whackjob Wednesdays.
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Only problem with dial-up and test is the size and frequency of the patches. I don't know about other dial-up users but I've found that the one I use will auto boot you after four hours and really doesn't like it if you try to reconnect immediately. This caps a session download to roughly 55-70MB per session. As it is right now, an Issue major patch takes me several days to fetch and a normal routine patch takes anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours to get.
The only way I was able to participate with the CoV beta (last wave) was because friends who played back then (but not anymore) gave me a DVD with a copy of their test directory since the initial patch was over a GB in size.
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$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components
Tempus unum hominem manet
I honestly did not know Dial-Up was still around. 
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Mine generally runs for 8 hours before it drops. In an ideal world, that's about 150 MB of download, but the updater can be fickle, gradually slowing down over a long update so that I only get maybe 100 MB before a reset. I can immediately reconnect, though. Sometimes a reconnect is fast enough that I don't get booted to the login screen when it happens while I'm playing.|
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Only problem with dial-up and test is the size and frequency of the patches. I don't know about other dial-up users but I've found that the one I use will auto boot you after four hours and really doesn't like it if you try to reconnect immediately. This caps a session download to roughly 55-70MB per session. As it is right now, an Issue major patch takes me several days to fetch and a normal routine patch takes anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours to get.
The only way I was able to participate with the CoV beta (last wave) was because friends who played back then (but not anymore) gave me a DVD with a copy of their test directory since the initial patch was over a GB in size. |
The real problem is the fixing files process. Since that doesn't give a cumulative lock on the individual files the way that a patch does, it means that any file greater than 100 MB in size is doubtful to ever be fixed, and any file greater than 150 MB is definitely not ever going to be fixed. This is why I try to keep up on patches to Test.
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A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes."
Back when I fist started, I played on Dial-Up. Played for almost a year. So, if they need any information, I can provide all kinds. 
And I guess I had a good dial-up ISP. It never dropped me, no matter how long I spent online or how much I downloaded. And it was only $15/month, too!
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I have used dialup when DSL was not available, not yet installed, or down. I expect I will need to use it again as a fallback.
Currently, I do not use it, but I can have it set up and working within about a minute of my VDSL dropping out. This has happened several times due to weather - Texas likes to have electrical storms apparently, who knew?
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I sometimes play via a tethered mobile phone if that counts - It's pretty slow 
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In the USA there are a lot of people living outside cities and in rural areas where DSL is unserviceable unless you live within 10 miles of the box. Some people do satellite, but the uplink is still regular dial-up.
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Originally Posted by Nightphall
I honestly did not know Dial-Up was still around.
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CatMan - some form on every server
Always here, there, and there again.
Greetings Players,
In an effort to get an idea of how many dial up users we currently have playing City of Heroes, I am asking players that are currently using dial up to please post in this thread.
Thanks!