Your average dial-up connection downloads at around 3-4 kilobytes a second.
Your average game demo is 700-1gb in size. On a steady dial-up connection, that's a minimum 48.6 hours of downloading constantly. for 700mb @ 4kb/s.
So the answer? Nope, not by a long shot.
DLC is a different question and usually more doable if you're willing to dedicate 1-6 hours to download (DLC hardly bypasses 200mb in filesize, most of the stuff I downloaded ranging from 1-40mb in size), but the major problem is getting the PS3 to even work on a dial-up connection, to which the most immediate means I can think of is using a PC to share an already active dial-up connection to the PS3 via LAN.
It rarely happens but when I'm capped I'm able to jump onto Xbox Live and play lag free games on dial-up. I was surprised when I tried to do the same with my PS3... obviously it didn't work. Anyone know why the PS3 requires broadband only?
The PS3 doesn't have a phone jack and the best you can do with dial up is wait 15 seconds for a picture to load on your screen. Demos average atleast 500+ megs. That would take a long time and you'd have to be constantly connected.
I use a 256kbps broadband.... yes it's called broadband in my country... sadly :'( Anyway even though it takes like nearly a day to download one demo, i can still play Kill Zone 2 with hardly any lag at all. I only get like a 1 secound delay somtimes but thats pretty rare :P Gotta love the stability of the Kill Zone 2 servers
No dailup wont even get you in PStoreor anything,, i know cos i once went over my Monthly data limit (10gb) which will revert me to 64k speed.... and it was horrible, can barely sign in and cant do anything.
You can hook up dial up to your PS3 and NO it's NO good for downloading anything. Dude with that kind of connection it would take minutes to load high quality pictures to begin with and that's too much of wait for damn pictures. Get DSL.
It rarely happens but when I'm capped I'm able to jump onto Xbox Live and play lag free games on dial-up. I was surprised when I tried to do the same with my PS3... obviously it didn't work. Anyone know why the PS3 requires broadband only?
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Because, they are free dedicated servers and if most people used Dial-up, it would just be a lag-fest in the game.
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