So I got a free 12 month subscription to Onlive...

[dkamm65]

forget me i just got the email that i got accepted and i tried using the one time use url and my pc crapped out half way through filling the thing out

goddddd

Click the second link in the email. You can log in and continue where you left off.

and good computers.

Well if you have a good computer, you don't need this.

[Ad Bot]

[Madmitten]

how many mbps? we're going to switch over to a different comcast service that's $50/mo and 20mbps download :/

it claims to be 100mbps
but the download speed caps at 120/kbs
when it is going fairly "fast" it goes 80/kbs
Skip shares my pain

[Snaffle J. Bean]

it claims to be 100mbps
but the download speed caps at 120/kbs
when it is going fairly "fast" it goes 80/kbs
Skip shares my pain

Xfinity claims to have 50mbps downloads, my the most I've ever gotten was 5mbps.

[Madmitten]

Xfinity claims to have 50mbps downloads, my the most I've ever gotten was 5mbps.

what does mbps stand for?

[Snaffle J. Bean]

what does mbps stand for?

Either megabytes per second or megabits per second. I have no idea what the difference is between the two.

[dkamm65]

Xfinity claims to have 50mbps downloads, my the most I've ever gotten was 5mbps.

There's a difference between Mb/s and MB/s. If you get 50Mb/s, your download speed should max at 6.25MB/s, if the server you're downloading from has enough upload to handle that.

Either megabytes per second or megabits per second. I have no idea what the difference is between the two.

8 bits = 1 byte

[Snaffle J. Bean]

There's a difference between Mb/s and MB/s. If you get 50Mb/s, your download speed should max at 6.25MB/s, if the server you're downloading from has enough upload to handle that.

Well, the most I've ever gotten was 5/Mbps in steam, so it wouldn't matter if I switched over to something that was 20/Mbps then, right?

[dkamm65]

Well, the most I've ever gotten was 5/Mbps in steam, so it wouldn't matter if I switched over to something that was 20/Mbps then, right?

b=bit
B=byte

I think you mean the most you've seen was 5MB/s. (uppercase B) If you're paying for 50Mb/s (lowercase b), you were getting just a bit less than your max.

So if you switched to 20Mb/s, you would lose more than half of your speed.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

b=bit
B=byte

I think you mean the most you've seen was 5MB/s. (uppercase B) If you're paying for 50Mb/s (lowercase b), you were getting just a bit less than your max.

So if you switched to 20Mb/s, you would lose more than half of your speed.

Oh, well stuff. I just checked steam and it displays MB/ps. I guess we're staying with xfinity :|

[dkamm65]

Oh, well stuff. I just checked steam and it displays MB/ps. I guess we're staying with xfinity :|

Yeah, you should be very happy with 5MB/s.

[General Nick]

Oh, well stuff. I just checked steam and it displays MB/ps. I guess we're staying with xfinity :|

Too bad Comcast still has horrible customer service :|

That's why my family is like never using them. Ever.

[Snaffle J. Bean]

Too bad Comcast still has horrible customer service :|

That's why my family is like never using them. Ever.

It's the only company that has cables in this neighborhood beside Frontier, which is ten times worse than Comcast.

[devildogelite]

I got into the beta a while ago but never actually used it

[Skip]

Seems neat. Too bad my Internet connection is worse than my computer.