I was only able to get broadband 4 years ago and I am just outside a major city.
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02-21-2010, 10:32 PM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
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02-22-2010, 07:45 AM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
The U.S. and Canada are huge expanses of land with small (relatively) pockets of people located far away from each other. Many other developed countries (SEE: S.Korea, Japan, U.K.) have far less land to cover in order to get everyone connected to the broadband infrastructure. In our cases it's just not profitable for ISPs to run cable out to BFE so that they can maybe pick up a few customers, therefore many in outlying rural areas remain without any choice, or WORSE, stuck with Comcast, who will throttle your speed down if they decide what you are doing is unimportant. Also, like Screwball said, even some in suburban areas have only just received access. This whole LAN thing seemed like a non-issue to me at first, and for me it basically is, but I really feel badly for those stuck trying to play together and having that option essentially cut out for them. I know some have said they're playing on a dial up connection but this may not work indefinitely as blizzard has said that broadband is a requirement to play. Anyway, I'll stop complaining now...
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02-22-2010, 11:32 AM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
Only temporary. The cable guys are taking forever to set up broadband. :/
Originally Posted by Hav0x
I should mention though that it does help if the other users have broadband. For example, I don't think even a 1v1 with both players on dial-up would work as great.
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02-22-2010, 04:27 PM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
Many thanks for the specific answer Originally Posted by Nottoway
Oh, and Gradius, seriously 26k? Even dialup normaly is 56k, what the hell did they do to you?
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02-22-2010, 06:48 PM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
In an RTS game (most games for that matter), latency is far more important than bandwidth.
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05-09-2010, 04:22 PM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
remember that bandwidth is directly related to bit-rate
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05-09-2010, 05:03 PM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
You revived a 3 month old topic to say that...
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05-09-2010, 05:24 PM
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Re: Starcraft 2 bandwidth requirement
Closed. Originally Posted by screw_ball69
