Whooooosh

After a week without broadband F2S and Easynet finally got their act together today and I’m now back getting my bb rush. My connection speed seems a bit ‘floaty’ at the moment but a download speeds between 6 & 7Meg is not to be sniffed at – ADSLGuide test results. Upload speed is nice at over 600k – be interesting to see how that affects my Xbox hosting abilities.

F2S DNS servers seem less than rock solid so I’ve moved to a different providers but apart from that there is nothing bad to report. Downloads from newsgroups were topping out at around 650k/sec. The LLU line seems more susceptible to MTU & RWIN tweaking. I managed to get close to 7Meg but then got greedy and saw the connection drop to around 3.5Meg.

However it’s great to have broadband back. Dial-up was amazingly slow – so many sites are now set-up for fast users it made most unusable. Even e-mails took a long time to download. Maybe I’m just looking back through rose tinted specs, maybe I’m to used to the fast speeds but I’m sure when I used dial-up all the time it was slow but not that slow. When iTunes 6 came out last night I chuckled at the thought of downloading 30Meg – it would have taken forever. Today it took less than a minute.

X05

The big Xbox 360 event has been and gone. Initially I felt pretty flat about the whole thing but some of the games and screenshots really have impressed. After slagging off Perfect Dark Zero the last video I watched showed co-op off really well – who cares if the graphics are a bit current gen and slightly rough – the gameplay looked superb and the fact that co-op is online bodes well.

PGR3 still looks jaw dropping as does Kameo. One worry was just what games would be available at launch – the following are semi-confirmed as launch day (and not launch window)

  • Project Gotham Racing 3
  • Kameo
  • Perfect Dark Zero
  • Madden Nfl 06
  • Nba Live 06
  • Tiger Woods Pga Tour 06
  • Need For Speed Most Wanted
  • Fifa 06: Road To Fifa World Cup
  • Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  • Call Of Duty 2
  • Dead Or Alive 4

plus a few more to be confirmed. I’ve not pre ordered the 360 and I think I’m too late now. I’ll just wait until launch day (2nd December) and see what I can pick up. Looking forward to it once again. Visit Xboxyde to see some of the media from X05.