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Comment Misleading Perception Of Ranking (Score 1) 186

The Netflix chart gives a misleading perception of "ranking." Some of these services are tiered offerings, like TimeWarner Cable and AT&T U-Verse, but you can't tell from the chart what percentage of the customers have subscribed to lower-speed service or higher-speed service. It's possible that a higher ranking ISP just happens to have more customers paying more money for faster access -- that doesn't make them a faster ISP.

Comment Clarification on PC/Xbox cross platform play (Score 1) 162

In case you were confused by this Slashdot article where Valve talks about Xbox's playing against PC's, what they mean is Xbox's and PCs on the same LAN. There is still no way for an Xbox360 to connect to servers out on the public Internet. They are trapped behind the Windows Live system. Just FYI....(it confused me).

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