Cox Introduces 'Elite Gamer' Internet Fast Lane

>those conservatards who said “SEE, BANNING NN DIDNT DO ANYTHING!”

No, gaming is the cheap hobby of the masses, nowhere as expensive as owning Apple computers.

That's probably why service providers for the masses expect to be able to get $15/month- it's a not so huge luxury for the lower and middle class, they'll probably pay. Up-marketing them comes later.

10 DOWN AND 1 UP IS ALL YOU NEED

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I will. Cox is without a doubt the best ISP I've ever had. I live in Phoenix and their gigablast is costs me $60 a month and on the past three years I've only had their service go down a handful of times.

America will never be a socialist country, remember?
Enjoy getting screwed by monopolies.

But what does this do? Placebo right?

Gaymers are retarded. They buy shit like this
bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-diamond-6-6-high-speed-hdmi-cable-dark-gray-blue/2383319.p?skuId=2383319&ref=212&loc=1&ref=212&loc=1&gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1266837&gclid=CjwKCAjwtYXmBRAOEiwAYsyl3Ce-eG9i2o9o3d1W8AL5BI4iSk2Hco2smFljXrEIKbrSqfiOy3rK8BoCFbEQAvD_BwE

10 bit/hour, right

good. im gonna buy it cause cox is a fantastic isp.

Fucking Putin.

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That's audiophiles

b-but he's still [our guy], right?

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>Calls anyone else retarded
>Posts a link like that

STALLMAN WAS RIGHT ONCE AGAIN

imagine having shit tier slow ass american internet then your isp tries to milk you to make your connection less jittery rofl.

Project more. Go back to playing your man children toys lol

Socialist countries have invariably just replaced corporate monopolies with state run monopolies. Do you really want Congress running America's only ISP?

more like 2 cocking years

You can vote on government positions, you can't vote on corporations.

Hot take: this isn't a bad thing. Gamers need low latency, most internet users don't. Paying extra for special low latency routing seems completely reasonable (as long as they don't artificially raise everyone else's latency).

>you can vote on government positions
lol no you can't, or pot would be legal

>nobody needs more than 56k anyway!

He is retarded for posting the link, but still correct

>Hot take
I think you meant shit take

>as long as they don't artificially raise everyone else's latency
Don't worry, they will.

>bandwidth = latency
Even Jow Forums isn't this dumb

>what is being a shareholder
Fucking public education. I'm never spending my child to a public school. And if the school had a past of segregation even better.

According to the article, it only speeds up certain connections to certain game servers, it's not line-wide, so get fucked.

>customers don't need low latency, only gaymers do

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>more like 2 cocking years
No, June last year at the earliest.

And most ISPs apparently waited for more of the legal challenges to expire and maybe simply not be among the first who introduce it just in case people remember?

>tomshardware

This shit still exists?

Absolutely

Your vote as a shareholder doesn't matter because huge percentages of shares are gobbled up by institutional investors that hold pretty much all the power in votes.

Oh the horror. I'm stuck on my gigabit up and gigabit down connection until I can afford internet with racing stripes or whatever $oy shit they're selling.

lol you're one of the only reasonable people in this thread. everyone else is "duh-uh, business man bad man." fucking faggots.

Same argument applies to government. Even more so. You can own more shares and your say matters more to business. Your say will never matter more than the nigger dropout to government.

>d- dont tread on me!!

Cool. Fuck this net neutrality Reddit meme.

Comcast has a 1tb hard limit that is bullshit.
If they do tier garbage like mobile networks I'm gonna have to start dling shit onto a portable drive at a free wifi place.

> special low latency routing
Lel.

> as long as they don't artificially raise everyone else's latency
Yep, that's what they do.

They're not installing a second set of independent internet infrastructure for gaming. They're mostly just prioritizing that paid traffic over other traffic for those that pay $15. And then they'll prioritize "stock market" or other fast traffic over *that* gaming traffic for $1000.

At most they installed the capability to do that if they didn't have it already.

I don't really understand the analogy you're making. It's a good thing that your vote only matters as much as a "nigger dropout" because you are one person and so is he. No amount of money can (theoretically) change your amount of votes.
Corporate voting is different since you can just buy more shares and have more votes. It sounds like you're describing completely opposite things.

>if reddit likes it then we have to hate it
Nice reddit mentality

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>certain combinations of ones and ceroes are pricier to transfer.

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>they installed the capability to do that
Are you crazy? That shit costs money.

>be americlap
>want to get into trading because capitalism, yay!
>can't because fortnite players clog up the connection and all my buy/sell actions take a few ms longer than those of the competition
>gamers have risen up and stopped me from becoming a trader
>capitalism stops capitalism
>shoot up a school

No it doest. The nigger dropout is not sufficiently educated to make decisions for highly specialized and specific policy decisions related to industries/topics such as finance, technology, public policy, economics etc. The best you can hope to get is an ideologue candidate (trump/bernie/warren et. al.) from such low stock.

In fact I'd argue that franchise should be severely restricted and would advocate for a system similar to Starship Troopers.

I'm fine with ripping off gamers. They're the biggest tools on the planet.

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Nigga if your ISP wants to make you pay more they'll just increase their fees. They can literally do that WITH net neutrality and if they did you'd have no choice but to comply like the little wimpy faggot that you are. No ISP is gonna make you pay extra for websites everyone visits daily, especially if there are 5 other ISPs to choose from. Just stop being a Reddit faggot already.

>inb4 my zoophilia vids have as much importance as the local hospital's ER stuff
>inb4 the Jews are onto me
>inb4 Reddit infographs

>theres only one ISP where he lives

For now yes. Wait until they start to throttle everything. If they do that slowly enough people will accept it, just like DLC, microtransactions, and all the shit that's going on today.

Most gamers resisted loot boxes and crap. You're getting a fair bit of effort in that $10-30 software that is a game (or game set) on PC.

Although you leech off of it constantly, the bang bus isn't free. Just because many people are involved, doesn't mean that nobody is going to charge them, you naîve faggot. If your ISP with net neutrality raises prices, change the ISP instead of the law, you bootlicking glow in the dark wanna-be CIA nigger.
I'm extremely sure not even a real CIA employee would want to play extra for what they have already, just because some ISPs ran some ads on public television. You blind tool.

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This is literally true, netflex and Facebook are latency agnostic

Pareto principle, 20% of all gamers produce 80% of the revenue. Who cares what "most" gamers do when they don't bring in the money?

>change the ISP
That's my point you stupid. Go do that instead of being a faggot.

>Wanting to pay more
How's your wife's boyfriend doing.

This is a good thing and anyone who says otherwise is a retard.

its comcast & associated cunts ffs.
gaymers will pay $15 moar for the same service as now, everyone else on gayming servers will be deliberately anchored, till they cough up the mafia play fee as well.
AND, ITS JUST THE START!
fucking cunts

Not if you increase latency artificially

>Yep, that's what they do.
Proof?
Yeah "business man bad" pretty much summarizes the idiots ITT

Yes. This is soon coming to Canada as well when the conservatives get power. Poorfags will soon be off the net.

Not sure you're correct on that one even within one gaming marketplace, Steam and associated budget stores - never mind the game ecosystem in general. A large part of that ecosystem just doesn't like repeated / "optional" payments.

That's not to say no individual games finance themselves with gacha, loot boxes, silly amounts of cosmetic and pay to win. Sure enough, there you very much you see the Pareto principle - it's a smaller fraction that is crazy enough to put a lot of their income into the game or that has a high income/high wealth and just doesn't really care about $2k or $5 (other currently unused assets of theirs consume as much in a day).

>business only cares about the quality of their service when they figure out they can make more money if they just fix their routing and vpns

isnt it funny that if they just fixed the routing internally before they would have more customers anyway

as long as it doesn't become a monopoly and/or console wars where u have to be on certain isp to play certain games it wont be an issue

buy stock in vpns

You're assuming they're going to add a 300ms speed bump to all other traffic, which is ridiculous because you can ALREADY pay extra money for lower latency (for high frequency trading) and that hasn't happened.

Britbong here
What's it like being constantly fucked in the ass with no Vaseline by government-lobbied corporations?

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>you can ALREADY pay extra money for lower latency
Yet another thing reddit thought net neutrality stopped but already existed before its repeal.

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Just recommended to corporate.

There's only one ISP that serves my neighborhood.

>tomshardware.com/news/cox-elite-gamer-internet-fast-lane,39176.html

>anti-net neutrality morons said it would never happen

Feels good to be right. And this is just the beginning.

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You should know, given the situation is no different here. Or maybe you're just as thick as the average Burgerclap and got used to the cock rammed down your throat without even realising it.

There is literally nothing wrong with having faster lanes

No self-awareness or just trolling?

Nice buzzwords, but unless you can't fill me in on how we're in the same situation, i'll take it that we're just fine as is

>government-lobbied corporations

there is if its done at the expense of the regular users. obviously, shows a scenario where a specialized infrastructure is used and is completely fair since they HFT corps incur much higher costs.

Video games are for children, so I don't care.
Everyone who is mad about this needs to go back to /v/

Post your best smug Indians.

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Get ready burgers. You get the future you deserve.

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There is when a private corporation chooses which lanes gets to be fast.

How are they going to guarantee that this service actually does anything and it's not just snake oil shit? Cox is not the only network in the US and there will be lots of game servers running on other networks outside of Cox. Also, why is it PC and Windows only? What about consoles?

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Good, gamers should pay for wasting all my bandwidth

>How are they going to guarantee that this service actually does anything
Why would they?

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It's guaranteed going to be snake oil or fuck everyone else to make it not seem like snake oil. There's no way Cox is going to invest in their infrastructure for gamers of all people. They just want to cash in on the "gaming" X meme.

>Pay slightly more to be ensured a low latency connection
Meanwhile the EU just passed a directive that is very likely going to cause the Internet as we know it today to stop existing, all for the sake of multi-billion dollar media companies.
But that's okay, they're the EU.
EU BASED
USA DUMB

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It doesn't matter if Stacy gets 150 ping to Facebook, that's no expense because Facebook is latency agnostic. Anything real time should be routed at a higher priority, including gaming packets.

Which directive are you talking about?

The porn thing was the brits.

The situation about not having cheap fast internet or having no ISPs to choose from because neither are true for britbongs.

t.150/150 fiber for £30 a month