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Not me personally but I have relatives in Northern Michigan that do not even have dial-up. Because of where they live their choices for internet are dial-up or
by wazanator 10y ago
Not me personally but I have relatives in Northern Michigan that do not even have dial-up. Because of where they live their choices for internet are dial-up or cell phone providers hotspot. This normally isn't a problem for them though as they have cell phones with a few gigs of data a month so they can check emails and do some shopping.
However they've pretty much had to go back to playing older video game systems because of this. Video games used to be the perfect answer when it came to entertainment for them living out in a rural area. An Xbox One for example requires an internet connection for initial setup and with the size of day one patches for games they would eat through over a months worth of data on one patch if they tethered. I'm actually in the process of helping them price out and then build a modest mid tier computer because at least then they buy a DRM free game from a site like Gog then drive into town to the local library to download the installers on a flash drive. It's a shame neither Sony or Microsoft have come up with an offline patching system for games yet.
- michaelmior 10y agoYou can download the day one update for Xbox offline and then install via USB. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/system-updates-solution https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/system-updat...
- Markoff 10y agowhy not satellite download with mobile upload?
- wazanator 10y agoThey have considered it but Dish is about ~$50 a month if I recall from the last I talked to them and that's just too much for downloading and patching games.