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[Boomer Click Bait]

This makes no sense why this wouldn't be an option. My Internet isn't the fastest so 80GB would take around 4-5 hours. Granted it's light years better than what I grew up with and my area has no access to any kind of high speed internet. I enjoy cabin life in the woods, but sure is nice to preload.

[Veteran]

Originally posted by STOOKY:

Originally posted by Veteran:

Buddy I literally have a gigabit fibre internet going on average 680 mbps which is 85 MB/s but on quieter days I can easily go to 900 mbps which is 112.5 MB/s.

And I am not some some rich bloke with money coming out my arse. I'm just a dude who lives on his own working minimum wage 😂😂 Fibre internet in the UK is now not only common but cheap and easily available. I'm paying £35 PCM for these speeds which is a steal for what I am getting.

Maybe but the downside is that you have to live in the UK which isn't worth it lol. No but seriously that's a nice deal :) It's a lot more expensive here so I just make do with my 100mb/s up 100mb/s down, which costs about the same as you're paying :P

You're not wrong lol. 😂😂 The UK is a dump and a declining country. You can hardly call it a modern country. I'm going to take advantage, save up and then probably move back to Poland in 5-6 years.

[Husbando]

+1

[Malus131]

Originally posted by Veteran:

Originally posted by Malus131:

Also in the UK and my speeds just make it feel like the infrastructure/providers are flipping the V at me. I'm not even in the sticks

Worcestershire rip... Which provider do you have?

I'm with vodafone lol. Still, it's a mark up from the few hundred kb/s I had when I was a kid so always got to look on the bright side right?

[Gisborne]

Originally posted by Boomer Click Bait:

This makes no sense why this wouldn't be an option. My Internet isn't the fastest so 80GB would take around 4-5 hours. Granted it's light years better than what I grew up with and my area has no access to any kind of high speed internet. I enjoy cabin life in the woods, but sure is nice to preload.

Now I have 1300 Mbps I can download a full game in 10 min, Make a cup of tea and done. Only costs £34 per month for GIG Net by Virgin Media in UK. Most of UK has full fibre now, I moved house to a new build a year ago, this house has gig net, I got emails just after i moved my old house just got gig net and its 8 miles outside of sheffield city center. My dads house has gig net as well in a suburb bungalow in an area of old people mostly. Even the very poor run down flats in sheffield has gig net lol.

Actually what is a funny fact, It takes LONGER to decrypt and unpack a preloaded game, than it does to download it post launch with gig net.

[Fluxion]

TLDR - Horrendously slow connection for where I live

Wanna hear something pathetic? I live less than 20 miles from where the Space Shuttles were launched (have most of my life), so you'd think this county would be a "technology hub".

Yea... My ISP is "still working on the fiber". Any day now!

Most of the area consists of "country" or "hood" sprinkled in with "new emerging" planned communities areas of overgrowth. It''s actually gotten so bad with apartments being throw up everywhere, I have no clue how the old infrastructure is going to accommodate.the original cities that had space left that they're throwing stuff up in.

And let's just say the famous city where "I Dream of Genie" was filmed is probably the worst in the area... I lived there briefly decades ago and even then it was just an alcoholic, drug infested, low end city. How far ye have fallen.

[Gisborne]

Originally posted by Fluxion:

TLDR - Horrendously slow connection for where I live

Wanna hear something pathetic? I live less than 20 miles from where the Space Shuttles where launched (have most of my life), so you'd think this county would be a "technology hub".

Yea... My ISP is "still working on the fiber". Any day now!

Most of the area consists of "country" or "hood" sprinkled in with "new emerging" planned communities areas of overgrowth. It''s actually gotten so bad with apartments being throw up everywhere, I have no clue how the old infrastructure is going to accommodate.the original cities that had space left that they're throwing stuff up in.

And let's just say the famous city where "I Dream of Genie" was filmed is probably the worst in the area... I lived there briefly decades ago and even then it was just an alcoholic, drug infested, low end city. How far ye have fallen.

The USA etc has all their cables on poles in the air, a storm often takes out people internet and can be down for days or weeks. In the UK being the first country to have proper infrastructure and underground cables our entire system is much more expensive and slower to upgrade, but when theres wind your net wont go down.

[Igris]

Netherlands here, i got 700mbps download speed and 60mbps upload. Still a shame there is no pre-load

[Hexagoros]

Originally posted by Igris:

Netherlands here, i got 700mbps download speed and 60mbps upload. Still a shame there is no pre-load :fear:

*grumbles in angry American*

That's better than the business speed I pay extra for. V_V

[fuji699]

Originally posted by Veteran:

Originally posted by STOOKY:

Maybe but the downside is that you have to live in the UK which isn't worth it lol. No but seriously that's a nice deal :) It's a lot more expensive here so I just make do with my 100mb/s up 100mb/s down, which costs about the same as you're paying :P

You're not wrong lol. 😂😂 The UK is a dump and a declining country. You can hardly call it a modern country. I'm going to take advantage, save up and then probably move back to Poland in 5-6 years.

a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ calling another country trash is funny. I can't imagine calling 100mbs first world speed. 1gb is the standard here in america

[Hexagoros]

Originally posted by fuji699:

Originally posted by Veteran:

You're not wrong lol. 😂😂 The UK is a dump and a declining country. You can hardly call it a modern country. I'm going to take advantage, save up and then probably move back to Poland in 5-6 years.

a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ calling another country trash is funny. I can't imagine calling 100mbs first world speed. 1gb is the standard here in america

It literally isn't.

"The average internet speed in the U.S. was 219 Mbps download and 24 Mbps upload as of November 2023, according to Speedtest.net"

[fuji699]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

Originally posted by fuji699:

a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ calling another country trash is funny. I can't imagine calling 100mbs first world speed. 1gb is the standard here in america

It literally isn't.

"The average internet speed in the U.S. was 219 Mbps download and 24 Mbps upload as of November 2023, according to Speedtest.net"

most americans live in cities with 1000mbps

[Fluxion]

Originally posted by fuji699:

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It literally isn't.

"The average internet speed in the U.S. was 219 Mbps download and 24 Mbps upload as of November 2023, according to Speedtest.net"

most americans live in cities with 1000mbps

No... they don't... 1g is barely coming to most places now... you're off you're GD rocker... show ANY statistic supporting that. We have some areas and some companies but it is NOT the norm by LONG shot.

You can't say, "well, all the big cities in the US have it". OK, what about the other 90% of the country? And certainly not just say "cities" in general.

Good grief.

I live in one of the biggest tech-hubs of the country (world at one point) and AT&T does not even have the fiber laid here yet! Who was also once upon a time one of the biggest tech in the world.

[Hexagoros]

Originally posted by fuji699:

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

It literally isn't.

"The average internet speed in the U.S. was 219 Mbps download and 24 Mbps upload as of November 2023, according to Speedtest.net"

most americans live in cities with 1000mbps

You are factually wrong. This is not something we can debate, as the numbers are what the numbers are.

From USA Today in January of 2024 (this year)

"The FCC defines “basic” internet speed as between 3 and 8 Mbps, generally considered a slow speed. The average internet speed in the U.S. was 219 Mbps download and 24 Mbps upload as of November 2023, according to Speedtest.net." - Link: https://www.usatoday.com/tech/internet/what-is-a-good-internet-speed/

I live in New York City. New York State's fastest internet provider is Verizon, which averages 750MBS. Verizon is also (often) the most expensive provider you can have, and is not available in all areas, as not all areas of the state have fiber yet. Source: https://www.broadbandsearch.net/service/new-york

So no, we in no way average 1GbpS. You either made that up or got mis-info'd.

[Underfell Sans]

Originally posted by Boomer Click Bait:

This makes no sense why this wouldn't be an option. My Internet isn't the fastest so 80GB would take around 4-5 hours. Granted it's light years better than what I grew up with and my area has no access to any kind of high speed internet. I enjoy cabin life in the woods, but sure is nice to preload.

knowing pc players, it just gives pirates early access to the game itself so im guessing thats their reason

[Veteran]

Originally posted by fuji699:

Originally posted by Veteran:

You're not wrong lol. 😂😂 The UK is a dump and a declining country. You can hardly call it a modern country. I'm going to take advantage, save up and then probably move back to Poland in 5-6 years.

a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ calling another country trash is funny. I can't imagine calling 100mbs first world speed. 1gb is the standard here in america

Hardly a foreigner you pillock. I am a British citizen and own a UK passport. I can criticise my country the same way you can. Maybe instead of blaming foreigners for all of the problems with the UK you blame yourself for voting for bellends who can't run this country properly. 😂 I bet you think that Brexit was the best decision to ever be made.

Edit: Also you know what is super hilarious? That you made a silly claim and you got called out by two people for being factually wrong. But go on about how "Foreigners are calling other countries s*it" 🤣🤣