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Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: MBigD011 on April 21, 2001, 05:28:39 PM

I have DSl and prefer that over cable but I am wondering what broadban is PS2 gonan sport and are there any broadban modems?  whats the word turd?

BigD

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: Solid Snake 88 on April 21, 2001, 05:35:37 PM

Well no official release dates yet but expect it to be sometime in 2001.

BTW Cable kicks DSL wimpy little @ss. The only type of DSL that beats cable is T3, and (mostly)only big companies can afford that.

Oh and its broadband, not broadban.

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: KillaX on April 21, 2001, 06:07:39 PM

I agree Cable rocks! I just came from the Stone age (56K) to the Future (Cable (2M+))   boy is it quick!


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Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: Crippler on April 21, 2001, 06:14:52 PM

We shall find out at E3..

Hopefully they will do what sega did last year. Acutally demo the online play.

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: videoholic on April 21, 2001, 06:15:57 PM

I don\'t want to get into a Cable vs DSL war, but they are both great.  I have Cable at work and DSL at home and Cable does freaking fly.  Only problem is it bogs if you are in an area where there are lots of people.  DSL does not.  Both would kick ass though for PS2 action.

Bring it on biatch!!!

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: inteq on April 21, 2001, 06:48:34 PM

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Only problem is it bogs if you are in an area where there are lots of people. DSL does not.

So true, that is why I would rather have DSL right now.

Anyway, I doubt Sony is going to sell a broadband modem.  There are just too many companies that require different modems for their service.  What I am guessing they will have is a hub for people to connect to, that you will most likely have to pay to get on to, and go from there to the game you want to play.

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: videoholic on April 21, 2001, 08:10:32 PM

THey don\'t need anything for broadband.  Just a regular old Cat 5 network connection.  We can plug our DSL/Cable modems right into it.  No biggie.

Give me a network connection I say!!!

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: inteq on April 21, 2001, 08:22:58 PM

Oh, I know they\'ll have an ethernet adapter.  I was just thinking that to play games online you\'ll have to pay a monthly fee, like many PC games already do.

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: Caspian on April 21, 2001, 08:45:33 PM

They couldn\'t make you pay. They would lose much more then they gained.

Which reminds me I hope PS2 Everquest isn\'t pay.

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: inteq on April 21, 2001, 09:53:15 PM

Then how is Sony going to make money with the online gaming?  Sega had seganet, what will Sony have?  They obviously can\'t have a broadband ISP, so that is why I figured they would make you pay to play online.

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: Caspian on April 21, 2001, 11:24:11 PM

I misunderstood to some extent. They will charge for thier own but like Sega you will not have to use it to play the games. Hence you wont have to Specificly pay to play the games. Only to get online. But like most who have posted here I have cable already.

Title: What are Sony\'s Broadban Plans?
Post by: inteq on April 21, 2001, 11:37:10 PM

So Sony is going to have their own BB ISP?  That would be impossible, they would have to make a deal with every DSL and Cable company in the US to use the infrastructure they already have.