Niels, CoD is just a game. Doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things if you have to wait a day to play it, unless you’re willing to pay 2x more for 10x speed. Then you’re entitled to the higher speed — occasionally.
As George Carlin said about video games, “Just what we need: a generation of idiots with good eye-hand coordination. “ :) -mel via cell > On Dec 25, 2020, at 1:24 PM, Niels Bakker <niels=na...@bakker.net> wrote: > > * m...@mtcc.com (Michael Thomas) [Fri 25 Dec 2020, 21:18 CET]: >>> On 12/25/20 11:34 AM, Niels Bakker wrote: >>> Gigabit speeds are about bursting. Foreground activities like gaming, >>> making online reservations, streaming won't take more than that, but >>> anything faster is really nice to have when you're waiting for the odd >>> software download to finish. (You may have noticed that they've been >>> increasing in size this year.) >> >> Wouldn't cpe that implements proper queuing disciplines be a lot simpler and >> cheaper? I got bit by that once when a friend was downloading a game and it. >> I flashed a router with openwrt and fiddled with their queuing nobs and >> everything was golden. > > Let's take an example from earlier this year when Activision shipped a 180GB > update to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare when they introduced the War Zone BR > game mode update. > > Download times:- > > 180GB at 100 Mbps: 4 hours > 180GB at 1000 Mbps: 23 minutes > > How will proper queuing disciplines possibly help here? > > > -- Niels.
