Internet is limiting my play time....

[Torseo]

A s for countries in Europe and Asia have better and faster internet you have to realize that the most technologically advanced countries are smaller than most states in the US as well as super populated, making it much more profitable for the cable companies. Why would a cable company want to extend service hundreds of miles for a few hundred people when they can extend service twenty or thirty miles for thousands

[unjustblood]

Satellites.

Not economy nor politics nor Jagex can jam your satellite beamz

[CaJ]

A s for countries in Europe and Asia have better and faster internet you have to realize that the most technologically advanced countries are smaller than most states in the US as well as super populated, making it much more profitable for the cable companies. Why would a cable company want to extend service hundreds of miles for a few hundred people when they can extend service twenty or thirty miles for thousands

 

That's just the kind of attitude that limits those who live in rural areas to NOT have Internet access. So if I played for over eight years on Runescape living on a Dial-Up connection while somebody else got the same stats that I did in a much shorter time period because he lived in a more populated area with fast Internet, would you consider that fair?

 

The answer is no. That's just how I feel about the situation today as I'm seeing players who live out in Europe to have the best computers running Runescape in Full HD while sipping a Coke. I don't have that luxury. I appreciate that I got to where I am today and I get ticked off when people who have better service than I do take it for granted.

 

So out in the more rural areas, people are living in the past. I don't exactly have the money to go move to a place where I can actually get fiber optics in a good sized town or city. I didn't like Dial-Up from time to time, but I felt happier with it moreso than Satellite, which had ridiculously high Ping rates. With Satellite I had gotten 500-1000 Ping, and that was on the servers that were close to home. I was paying over $50 a month for a service that had a lot of downtime. It's NOT recommended for Runescape. I've tried it, didn't work out in the end.

 

Normally, rural areas get services that cities got decades ago. If such a economic bubble didn't burst to the point where the majority of middle class citizens would suffer, then surely, I would probably be somewhere else by now. Keep in mind that I've had Dial-Up for nearly 15 years. I gained Internet access before a lot of people even knew how to work it. Now I am on the short end of the stick while others out there are getting the best deals at a low cost. That is not fair, in any sense. I can relate to anyone who has slow Dial-Up or no Internet to finally move on to something better when they later realize they can't get better services.

 

Only complaining because I am fed up.