Who seriously pays for service?

@highpitchsolo: You really have no idea how difficult it is to run & maintain a site such as RomUlation.net unless you host a site like this yourself, heck I don't even have a clue how the admins manage all on their own. So being a member who just downloads games, it's very convinient for you to just rant about costs & stuff because you're not the one who handles the bills & fixes stuff when the site gets broken.

As for why the admins keep maintaining the site out of their own pursestrings? I really don't know too, but as far as I can tell, this seems to be more leaning towards the community who supports the site, not just for the downloads. Two years ago when the site had to comply with the cease & desist order & had to be shutdown, the community who supported the site returned when the forum was again online & for sometime there were no downloads available but still people were still visiting & interacting with everyone on the forums

I was like you too back then as well, just here or rather on the main site, for the games. I just started coming to these forums when it went back online, & like you I was ranting about why there were no more games.

My sentiments go with the others as for your decision to go somewhere else, but trust me, there is no other place as good as RomUlation when it comes to games & a good community. If you do find one, though I highly doubt it, I hope you enjoy their services & don't rant like this there because their staff might not be as friendly as RomUlation's if you complain like this.

 

Those are two things he needs to consider:

His distance to the servers, & his actual internet speeds.

Anyway, I think he's just complaining about the bandwidth limitation that's been implemented, but as everyone else pointed out, all he really needs is patience

 

I sometimes get over 512 kb/s from RomU
It's called good internet

 

He's here, he's probably one of the people that never buy anything game related and always use emulators

 

Ouch! I also use emulators, mostly for retro titles & for the GBA, but I did spend a few hundred dollars for my FamiCom cartridges back when I was a kid & Game CDs for my PSOne back in its prime years, LOL! ;D

 

I have no problem buying new game systems, it just kind of bugged me that they charge for a service that most places offer for free. I had no idea it cost so much to run this website though, so I can't complain anymore. Not many people are going to actually pay for the service, since they can easily get roms for free elsewhere, so I just think the cap is kind of pointless.

 

Well you obviously have a premium membership or are lying. I have Comcast and get 24Mb/s, so my connection is plenty fast enough. The only reason I get 150kb/s is because of the cap, and I usually get slightly over that, around 155 kb/s.

 

Do you actually download at 24 MB/s though?
The most I have EVER gotten with Comcast is 2.5 MB/s downloading a torrent that I was seeding with one of my other computers.

I average about 700 KB/s if there are enough seeders that don't cap their upload speed at 0.01 KB/s.

I'd rather download the files here like the 700 MB images than go somewhere else, having to download .rar parts ALL day, having to come back to it every 15 minutes, or being limited like rapidshare "You have met the maximum download limit, please try again later." Here, I can just click and forget it, go make a sandwich, do something else while it goes. The less things I have to attend to, the faster it is. It doesn't have to wait for my input to download the next part. Then dealing with corrupted parts is another pain in the ass, especially trying to figure out which one it is out of 13 or so parts. Most of the time it just says it has encountered an error, not "part 6, 8 and 9 are totally !@#$ed, please redownload that."

 

insanecrazy07, highpitchsolo said 24 Mbps. That would me 3 MB/s.

Mb = megabit (Mbps)
MB = megabyte (MB/s)
8 bits = 1 byte

 

Didn't see the lowercase b, it's 4 AM here. I just saw two characters an M and a B with a /s, usually that means the large B. Otherwise it's p format with Mbps.

 

Yeah, he kind of mixed the two formats together.

 

Hey, in my defense I've never said you were greedy. I meant that I'm on tenuous enough ground already after that debacle to link to places that release ROMs on Rapidshare (rules against warez sites, etc). If I had enough disposable income I'd probably buy a premium membership; I have no problems at all with the technical setup here and appreciate the effort.

 

I also saw the lowercase b for kb/s, which I assumed was KB/s since he said 150, which is the download limit.

So by similarity, his Mb/s was interpreted as MB/s.

About the 8 bits in a byte...I find it insulting that I have to take an IT class at my college to fill a gen ed. I specifically remember that question being asked when my friend took it last year. lol