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stay safe

we're all looking out for each other. I hope you got home safely tonight.

The trick is not going outside.

update?

managed to get it to work. Have to copy the exact file structure from the PC you are copying from.

Note: I didn't copy the bethesda launcher install, only the game install. Once i made bethesda launcher install the game in the same "location" that the original copy was installed, it detected immediately. It's like the launcher looks for the game inside the folder, finds it, asks it where it was originally installed, checks if it's in the same place, and if it's not it says "sorry you have to download it again because your folders are now different even though that shouldn't actually matter at all".

edit: i should add that I can only select like 3 of the however many data centers, the one closest to me (Johannesburg) being "N/A"

only took 3.5 hours to download yesterday on a 10Mbps mobile phone for all 11.8GB

what are your impressions?

its shit and does'nt work without a router, tether your cell phone and you just have localhost:48000 in game and the server can't be reach to select your region

How is that even possible?

Why would it care how you get your net?

its the way it is when you have shit coders, like everyone who makes linux installs

this is all i get

https://s23.postimg.org/il06v93tn/Quake_Champ...035564.jpg

plenty of direct internet connection in the world, most people don't care for nerds who think they predict the way it should be

don't need a router if you leave your PC on and turn it into a wifi hotspot with your 10 antenna PCI-E card, which most won't register a tethered internet connection either

Weird.

How does it even know you're tethered? That sort of thing should be completely abstracted away from the game.

Being behind the NAT of the router should only cause problems, which being on a direct connection should not have.

Maybe an MTU issue.

look up direct connection on MSDN, its probably all linked up to the DHCP service and IP's

Yes, but that stuff is transparent to the game unless the game is specifically trying to get that sort of information, which is not normal.

It's not like it's gonna check to see if it has a public IP and go, oh fuck, I refuse to run on this connection now. It will just try to send a chunk of data to a given IP, and that data might not be getting through properly for some reason, or maybe the server's response is not getting back for some reason.

And there shouldn't be any reason for the game using Microsoft's "direct connections", which seem to be related to computing clusters.

different types of connections are all registered differently inside of windows internals

you fetch what connection type you have from dhcp service then you use the right api if needed

You just create a socket, connect it, and send shit over it using TCP or UDP. This stuff is old, and no game or program needs to know anything about how the OS deals with it or how it is implemented in software or hardware unless it really wants to.

You're making it sound like the game is checking what type of internet connection you have and then deciding to fail because it is a certain type, which it could operate over just fine using the stock standard APIs.

probably need this instead

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa370803(v=vs.85).aspx

Not when you pay the equivalent of $4 per GB on mobile.

tmobile uk/EE its £12 a month unlimited on 3G which can break the specs and hit 10Mbps

A flight to the UK to make use of this deal will be about 1000gbp :p I do wish we had something like that here.

all of europe's and america's internet traffic passes through the uk, its the central hub for ocean fibre pipes and cloud server farms

ontop of that, out of the 20 million EE customers, t-mobile still has 16 million, as the stats go a through years back

He'd still have to fly to the UK to make use of that cheap mobile plan you were talking about.

http://ontheworldmap.com/south-africa/south-a...on-map.jpg

if BT was'nt shit, uk's broadband wholesale would be alot cheaper, which means cheaper domestic broadband

the government pays for the infrastructure, including the £22 billion for all the gigabit fibre to be laid down inbetween exchanges, the government can take bake the ownership of the network when it wants as part of the deal when they sold the telecom network to BT in the 1980s, BT generally has todo what ofcom watchdog tells them to do with no time for appeals or anything

the uk has cheap internet because of all the infrastructure to be a hub of the ocean fibre pipes, telecoms by bandwidth from companies which own those using wholesale price