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Halo 3 beta

bounty29

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Boxy Brown, I think you might be confused about how speed ratings work. Check out what you get at www.speedtest.net and report back.

I have 15000kb/s download speeds and 350kb/s upload. That does not mean I can download 15mb in a second though. 960kB/s is a very good actual download speed for residential.

(kb = kilobit, kB = kilobyte) 15000kb/s = 1875kB/s, which would be the maximum burst speed, the average download speed would be much lower than that.
 
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Boxy Brown

this is what I get from my wireless computer

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bounty29

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That's FiOS? Wow. I just have cable and I have the same down speed, 1/10th the up speed (It's more than enough for me, I don't up anything)



(If you want to compare this to Boxy's numbers, it's 15.8mb/s and 0.37mb/s)
 
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Boxy Brown

yea thats FiOS, but in a few months they plan on upgrading me to there 20-Mbps download speed for only 2$ a month more.
 

bounty29

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Huh... No FiOS where I live, stuck with Comcast cable (formerly known as adelphia, sucks just as much.) Mine's $40~ a month as well, it's a shame there isn't more competition in the ISP business. I've had my Halo 3 downloading for about an hour now and it's around 40%, I'm going to bed so I'll be able to play it in the morning. :wave:
 

Piffington

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Hey fellas my bro sold me his xbox 360 for $150 last week and it's got xbox live on it. This may sound kinda stupid but how do I get to play the beta? I still haven't gotten a chance to go on live at all yet but I should be able to go on tomorrow with the new router I'm supposed to be getting. :wave:
 
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at this point you're going to need to find a copy of Crackdown with the Halo 3 Beta on it.
 
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first you need the game crackdown with the halo 3 beta on it. Then you need an xbox live GOLD account.
 

Piffington

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Oh I see, damn that's a great way of selling a load of copies of Crackdown. Hmmm :chin: ... I got to see if I could get my hands on it without actually buying the game....let us know if the beta's worth forking down the cash for the game...can't wait til September :joint:
 
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Boxy Brown

bounty29 said:
Huh... No FiOS where I live, stuck with Comcast cable (formerly known as adelphia, sucks just as much.) Mine's $40~ a month as well, it's a shame there isn't more competition in the ISP business. I've had my Halo 3 downloading for about an hour now and it's around 40%, I'm going to bed so I'll be able to play it in the morning. :wave:

I meant to say that verizon will be offering me 20/5 in a couple of months for only 2$ more than my current 15/5, and give it some time they will be in your area eventually and when they are jump on it.
 

GOT_BUD?

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Boxy Brown said:
you must have a slow connection because it takes me less than 20-min to download a 1G file.
Not when the server's getting slammed with 900,000 people. :joint:

I finally got it d/l'd last night from 11pm to 1am. Still haven't played it, but I will this morning.
 
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Well I had work at 9 this morning but that didn't stop me from staying up til 4 last night playing this. It's only a beta with 3 maps, but still its better than any other xbox live game. So much fun, they made the party system way better too.
 
How the hell do you play it? I heard you have to buy Crackdown or something.

If i bought crackdown today, will i be able to play it?

Someone please help me on this...come on guys, id love to play it, im a huge Halo fan.
 

GOT_BUD?

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Step 1 - Buy or rent a copy of Crackdown.
Step 2 - Load it in to your machine and go to the download section in the main menu of Crackdown. There will be an option to download the Halo 3 Beta.
Step 3 - Download the Halo 3 Beta.
Step 4 - Profit.
 

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can you just rent it and get teh beta? i thought there was some kind of code redeem.. if not.. im gonna go rent it right now.. also ... i read on another forum for all you guys having probs with dl speeds you need to clear your xbox cache, search google on how to do it. if anyone wants to play gears of war or something else pm me your gamer tag and i will add you to my buddy list..

peace and chicken grease

Endo
 
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