I personally believe that when things are going well, people have a lot better quality of life outside of cities. The only real problem here is the lack of decent internet. They get DSL in town, and almost all the way out here. Almost. I wouldn't trade this for city living though, no matter how much I could download. XD
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As hardcore gamers I don't see a reason to care about the outside too much, when I spend most of my time in front of the PC anyway. Also, the city has way more sources for games, hardware etc.
Also, access to university is way quicker if you actually live near the university that is located in your city.
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Heck, that's about what my internet tops out at speed-wise. I'd kill for that.
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Considering the hotel with good internet charges $90 a night, and I'm on a low-to-no income budget... Yeah...
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I've had nothing but good service from them, especially the customer service. Much better than Sprint. My wife asked them a question one time and the lady says "I can't help you" and hung up on her. The only complaint I have from Verizon is the data cap. but then, I have charter so I don't need much from them. That and five of us on a 4 gig a month plan never even use half of that
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The only time I actually talked to their customer service when my 'net was down, they basically told me to piss off and were no help whatsoever. I was thankful it came back after a couple of hours, as I didn't want to deal with those obnoxious people again.
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Like I said, the only time I called them they were rude, didn't help, etc. Definitely not a good experience at all.
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Worse prices than I get, and I'm in New Zealand, where are least over priced internet and datacaps make sense.
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I thought New Zealand had the best internet in the world? Read some article about it a while back... Guess they were wrong? O.o
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We can get some fast stuff, but the biggest cap I can find is 150GB, and that is costing me about $200 a month. My biggest money sink after rent.
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Hahaha! Where I am it's faster to communicate using smoke signals than via the internet :(
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The only places with decent high-speed internet are McDonald's (max 150KBps/second) or that hotel I stayed at for a night that cost me $90 for a night... I've just about got them convinced to let me come in and just use their internet for a few bucks though. XD
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What I feel towards Verizon can most accurately be described as hate. Complete and utter loathing. They provide a shoddy service and take advantage of people who have no better option.
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If you truly do "hate" them, you need to take a step back and gain some perspective. Not trying to be a dickbag, but don't sweat the small stuff and all that jazz. You don't "like" Verizon, and that's completely fine.
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I'm a full-time, round-the-clock, live-in caregiver for my Grandparents now. It wasn't always like this though.
Almost a year ago, I gave up a decent paying job with an upcoming promotion, an awesome apartment with amazingly fast internet, and a potential relationship to be here, taking care of my Grandparents in their time of need.
Aside from the stresses of taking care of them, I personally suffer from severe anxiety, severe depression, and a few health problems like chronic fatigue caused by a disease I contracted when I was a kid.
Now, add all that up then consider that my favorite way to wind down at the end of the day, what relaxes me the most out of anything, is an hour or two of either playing games (especially online with friends) or watching my favorite youtube channels.
Now consider that I can't watch videos on youtube anymore. I can't play games online anymore. I can't even download the games I want to play offline, by myself anymore. I can't do virtually anything I want to do online anymore because of Verizon's greed.
Now that you know what my situation is really like, can you understand why I do, honestly hate Verizon?
And before it's said, I am in therapy for my personal issues. My therapist's advice? "You have too much stress in your life. Spend more time doing things that relax you, things you enjoy."
-_-
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Can't watch youtube videos on this connection. They eat up too much data.
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Ah. Well, it's a humorous attempt to show how would honest advertisement of ISP look like.
We're your local high-speed cable internet provider. Are you looking for a fast, reliable internet connection? A large selection of your favorite hd channels? With 24/7 access, the best customer service, technicians - all in a fair price? [suspense] Fuck you. You'll take what we give. and so on, quite comical and sad at the same time.
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Yeah, using Verizon's wireless hotspot with it's limits honestly makes me feel like I live in a little third-world country or something. Honestly, who limits this stuff so ridiculously in this day and age? Such draconian practices feel years behind modern technology...
Greedy corporations though... They're why we can't have nice things. XD
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Do you have a nearby friend that already has those games installed... ask him to do a backup and then copy it to install it directly on your computer.
5GB limit is ridiculous for a home-internet service.. Minimum I've seen around here is 30 Gb a month and that's with the basic ones.
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Nope, no friends nearby with Skyrim. Heck, I only have one friend within reasonable driving distance...
And yeah, 5GB is ridiculous. I could upgrade to 10GB if I felt like paying that much, but I can't afford it.
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I only have a couple of friends, and the only one close enough to visit doesn't have Skyrim.
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I'm actually leaning towards agreeing with you on this one. I'm not usually for over-regulating business, but there should be some sort of law preventing this sort of thing.
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It's not only that but also the datacap you get is stupidly unreasonable, for fuck's sake. 5GB is nothing when it comes to daily internet usage. Today I think I might have used like 30 gigs or so. Only today (Well it's true that I'm leeching internet now and I need to get reserves of a bunch of things to cover my needs)
Moreover my mobile data cap is 1 GB which I can understand as it adhieres more to the average use (Also I don't get to pay more if I go over it, it just gets slower) but as I've said, 5GB on a home connection is beyond what's reasonable.
May I ask the speed and price tag?
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Right now, I'm paying $50 a month for about 1MBps download speed with a 5GB cap. For every gig I go over the cap, they charge an additional $10.
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Isn't that quite a lot? I don't have an internet connection ATM but I think I paid like 30€ for 30MBps (which of I get like 10MBps or so)
Do you live in a rural area or somewhere isolated?
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I do live in a rural area, yeah. It's kind of strange though, as DSL stops about a half-mile up the road from my house.
And yeah, it's quite expensive. When you consider that Skyrim alone would use up my entire monthly cap and cost me $40 on top of that in data overages to download, it's pretty damned ridiculous.
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This reminds me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk&feature=player_detailpage#t=131
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Try going to a cafe, library or McDonald's, spending a few hours there and abusing the free wifi to get the downloads. . . . assuming they have free wifi in your area that is.
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The only places with decent internet is McDonald's and the hotel I stayed at for a night a while back. It literally takes a couple of hours to even download one gigabyte at McDonald's though, as the net seems to move slower than it claims to be. I've almost got the people at the hotel convinced to let me use their internet for a few bucks though.
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Either satellite (same caps/slower speed) or oldschool dial-up (which we had until about a year ago).
For the record, you can't even log into Steam on dial-up anymore. It just doesn't work. Believe me, I tried quite a bit until we upgraded.
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Yeah, I figured you would have a satellite option. But a 5 GB cap on satellite seems even more ludicrous than this. o_O. Most I've seen had about a 15-25 GB cap.
And I believe you about not being able to log into Steam on dialup. I tried it on a GPRS connection once, and that didn't really work at all.
I don't suppose any other cellular companies have coverage in your area?
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I don't believe any other cell companies get decent coverage here, no.
Anyway, about satellite, with the prices they charge for larger caps, I might as well just pay the overages. I haven't found anything cheap enough to justify switching, especially with initial setup costs.
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I heard that they did, at first, but have discontinued the grandfathered unlimited plans now.
Myself, I signed up shortly after they did away with them.
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I never have used or tried Verizon. Although the Cable Fiber At&t is blazing fast in my town. At&t is rich of my town because the whole School District I go to uses it.
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I had AT&T's U-Verse before I moved back here about a year ago. I could have several downloads going on Steam and still stream 1080p video with no buffering. I miss that...
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Yeah, with Uverse my internet hasn't gone down in 3 months. At%t DSL is the worst.
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I've got a TV and quite a few consoles I picked up over the years. My problem is that these days, I'm pretty low-income. The only way I'm getting any newer games is usually through bundles and amazing sales, and they're all Steam, Desura, or GOG.com games usually.
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Hope you can forgive me a short rant. So I'm sitting here, staring at my Steam library. I've got a bunch of games, and quite a few of them are installed... The ones I was able to download at my friend's house before he moved, and then the couple more I downloaded during a one-night stay at a hotel with high-speed wireless...
The two games I most want to play in my library though, Metro 2033 and Skyrim, aren't installed.
Why? You might ask. Because I live out in the sticks and the best internet option we have available here in a Verizon Wireless Hotspot... With a 5GB monthly bandwidth cap, which they charge me $10 per gigabyte I go over that cap. Considering I usually max out my cap each month, to download Skyrim would cost me $90 in data overages on top of the $30-ish I paid for the game...
Considering I can't move, and have no better option... Yep. I hate Verizon. They used to offer an unlimited service up here but, well, then they got greedy. It sucks.
Sorry, I had to rant and at the moment, this seemed like a good place. I doubted you folks would mind, especially as I have a few more givaways to start in the next week or two...
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