
By Tim Ferguson
Published: Thursday 20 March 2008
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Name
squiz
Location
Essex
Occupation
None of your business :P
Comment
Considering BT have such restrictive bandwidth usages (and yes i have experience of a so called unlimited service they claim to have that sends you nasty letters when you use to much bandwidth) second life is a bad way to go. On numerous occaisions during my role as a second life mentor, i've had users ask me how to limit the bandwidth second life uses. A lot of isp's world wide place limits on thier users and because unlike other online worlds/games the content is always varied and random as its user created there is no back up on your HDD so the game is constantly streaming new data, and this has lead to many people losing thier internet connection for a month because second life is so bandwidth hungry it uses up thier limit in a couple of days, i've even heard it reached in hours before. If BT decide to remove thier restrictive and pretty much rubbish bandwidth restrictions it might be worthwhile.
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