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Comcast's Solution for Network Lag - Play Games Offline

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 03 2014, @06:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-you-don't-know-won't-hurt-us dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

Comcast's been irking a large segment of the internet again this week. This time, though, it doesn't have anything to do with their pro-merger mania, their stance on net neutrality, or the problems with their actual service. The latest kerfuffle is all about a thirty-second commercial -- one that doesn't even seem to get the basics of its own technology right.

The ad in question is for Xfinity Internet, and how it's supposedly so fast that "real gamers" won't notice buffering or lag when they play online. The problem is that the game shown in the ad is Ubisoft's Trials Fusion, which notably does not have any online gameplay. The game modes shown in the ad are only played offline, and would look and feel identical if the Wi-Fi were completely turned off.

Notice how smoothly your Blu-ray is playing? That's the speed of Comcast Internet!

 
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  • (Score: 1) by compro01 on Tuesday June 03 2014, @02:47PM

    by compro01 (2515) on Tuesday June 03 2014, @02:47PM (#50645)

    The only thing that'd really fix things is for municipal governments to seize ownership of the last-mile infrastructure of all these ISPs (since they were paid for with tax dollars after all), and then lease access to them to different ISPs.

    Or just do the breakup along those lines, leaving a "physical infrastructure" company and an ISP company, with the former mandated to lease lines to anyone interested.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday June 03 2014, @05:40PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday June 03 2014, @05:40PM (#50705)

    Then the physical infrastructure company will just jack up rates as much as they want since they have a monopoly. If you make it munipality-owned, you don't have that problem.