Ps2 Hdd

Okay, I forgot where I found this information, but I remember seeing it somewhere.. =P

Anyways, I\'m not sure how many of you know about this, but Sony recently have stopped selling the PS2BB unit, or the HDD drive.  Now they only offer it through ISPs, where you could sign up for an ISP and then receive the BB unit for a certain monthly fee.  I found this to be kind of weird, because I wouldn\'t be able to get my hands on one, since I don\'t even have a phone line installed in my room here (phone line costs like 700 US dollars to get installed).

Anyways the point of this post is that I found out somewhere that on http://www.isao.net you could buy an HDD unit if you sign up for an account with them.  The account is supposedly free as long as you dont use any of their services, and so I decided to sign up, and order the HDD drive.  With shipping and handling and taxes, the total came out to USD 150, which is an average to good price for a hard drive plus ethernet connection.  Anyways, hopefully the thing arrives, and if it does, I\'ll post some of my reactions as to what the HDD drive actually does for games and stuff.  As for the ethernet, I wont be able to test it because I wont be getting a broadband internet connection anytime soon, and coming this July, I plan on moving back to the states.

My only hope is that I can play Japanese online games in the U.S. using the Japanese HDD unit....  I hope...

Sweet.. Im looking forward to your impressions.

yeah sounds good!!!

Originally posted by kokopuphz
phone line costs like 700 US dollars to get installed

Where the heck did you come up with that figure?  Install one yourself for the simple price of a junction box and a telephone cable.  Then all you have to pay is a small fee for activation (which includes them coming out to install a line to the home).

For a really cheap alternative, you could always get a splitter and a really long phone line, roll it to your room when you use it, roll it away when done.

YeeeaH!

I have my own phone-line! :-D

Although my 56k runs through it...

I have a D-Link DSL Router that has 4 CAT-5 Cable ports.....3 are used and the last one is for my PS2! my Average speed is 648 Kbps (according to C|Nets bandwidth checker).




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with the HDD there may no longer be any need for memory cards as games could be stored on your HDD anyway, right?

Originally posted by Troglodyte


Where the heck did you come up with that figure?  Install one yourself for the simple price of a junction box and a telephone cable.  Then all you have to pay is a small fee for activation (which includes them coming out to install a line to the home).

For a really cheap alternative, you could always get a splitter and a really long phone line, roll it to your room when you use it, roll it away when done.

Well the thing is, in Japan, you have to buy from NTT the Rights to Use a Phone Line kind of thing, and this simple certificate/right costs 700 dollars.  Of couse once you pay the 700 dollars or so, you can move anywhere and it\'ll be valid.  But that\'s where the high costs come in.  And since I\'m not going to be here for more than 3 more months, I figure its just not worth the cost.

Originally posted by MaXiMaN
with the HDD there may no longer be any need for memory cards as games could be stored on your HDD anyway, right?

no!  You\'ll still need to use memory cards for game saves.