ONE is the loneliest...

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So now that people realize what it means to work in public I guess I should warn you all off about XBOX.  I am trying to figure out why Destiny keeps dropping me from my connection when I am about to finish a difficult Daily Heroic, which gives me 2 shards and takes quite a bit of time to get through, esp since I have 3 characters I need to take through them.

Before, as I have written, I was dropped from the game constantly.  I got codewords ranging from baboon to lizard to weasel.  I started to wonder if these were starting to sound like personal attacks.  But sure enough, I did some legitimate research at the XBOX forums and found that Port Forwarding is all the rage now.  You are wondering what this is yes?

Well, port forwarding specifies which ports your xbox will use on your router.  It seems like this ought to be something already dreamed up by the manufacturers but oh well, I'm an old man so I relegate my stupidity to the fact that maybe this is in fact some sort of NEW thing.  So I do the port forwarding, manually, and sure enough my gameplay goes off without a hitch.

Recently though, I have been getting dropped again.  It happens infrequently at least but ONCE it dropped me just as I was finishing a long mission.  I have TOLD you all about the particulars of people that JUST MIGHT have installed a listening device when the ONE cable company set up your internet run by your ONE gaming console, right?

So today I resolved to address it and started to do some research.  I figured, after all, that the internet speed was sort of slow when it came to Twitter and since I knew COMCAST was getting the benefit of our lower band usage, I resolved to contact them and resolve it if it was necessary.

So I contact them via chat and sure enough, we do a speed test and my MBPS go from 30 up to the 50 Mega bauds per second that they are supposed to be at.   I give accolades to the chap that I am talking to and off I go to try out the speed on my xbox.

Hangup.

I check the Network Statistics and it shows a download speed of ~17 MBPS.  And my latency, which I just checked was at 12 milliseconds, was now registering at 181ms.  So more research yeah?  I read and read and read.  Nothing new, they ask me to turn stuff off and reset the whole thingorother and whoopdy do nothing about configuring the xbox or explaining how it is that my computer can read one speed and the xbox read another.  

I go to the forums and there is my answer.  People in the United Kingdom(UK) and Australia have also had these problems but moreover they have been sharp enough to TEST their xboxes and EVEN their XBOX ONE which is supposed to be state of the art, and they saw the ms on their latency go from the teens up to the hundreds after some update done by xbox.

Now far be it from me to point out the fact that the ONE gaming console wants to save money by removing several servers that could be handling the load of gaming that they are beset with.  The truth is, games are a risk yes?  They are popular now but in about 3 or 4 months they might not be so popular and there you are saddled with bunches of extra servers you bought to handle the load.

But it seems to me, unfair, to make money using this excuse and not having to check it off with some regulatory body.  Someone should demand a set standard for gaming so that it is never crossed for the sake of saving money.

Oh and you know what else I found out is that by their own explanation, the "certified" speed for running a game on xbox is 150ms or lower.  It means the speed that you connect with the gaming servers from xbox should be at 150ms or lower so that you don't have a lag in gameplay. That's what they say is their standard and they say that if the ms is higher then you should contact your ISP and demand more bandwidth, lol, to meet their standard.

Except that I did call them, and the computer meets that standard just fine... just not the XBOX... and from what I read in the forums, neither does the XBOX ONE.  

PS. I'm so upset right now at them, I'm sitting here munching my cereal, pouting, typing, wiping my greasy fingers, and figuring out what the world is like in corporate America... the audacity of those people!  But at least, I can laugh at Baltimore, hah hah hah, I might be getting treated like an idiot but at least I don't have police slamming me on my backside with their nightsticks, hah, it's important to have perspective.  Tomorrow, I'm going to be really upset at some birds that like to sing right at midnight...  BEDLAM!!! (sarcasm) 

EDIT: Oh and this crazy talk has nothing to do with me imagining what it would be like to have my spinal cord snapped, while handcuffed, while choking to death... yeah... nothing.  Is someone going to please interrupt my porn now?