Napster Bad?!?!

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 8:57 am

Well, last night me and a few others I talked to could not get on napster, at least in my area. This was in prime time for my area, bout 7 o`clock. I went to play Quake3, with pings of 50. A stable 50. All the way untill about 9:15, where then my ping jumped to 150-200. I leave the server, and lo and behold, napster is back up.

Napster is a Good service in my opinion. I know I have leeched my fair share. But, It is the same as running an ftp server, and due to its popularity, EVERYONE has it. This clogs up both the up and down bandwidth, as people share all thier files and they arent really doing anything else other then dloading music, so uploading to them dont matter they dont really need the bandwidth anyway, they just dloading.

I feel that when/if napster goes down, all the cable gamers that are experiencing the PEAK time lag will be fine and dandy again. This was proven in my eyes last night.

Again, cant say im really against napster, I have used it alot myself, but I seriously believe for peak time slowdowns that Napster is the culprit. Imagine probably 60-70% ftp servers running on your node. Maybe more now that people know it might be closing. Thats alot of bandwidth, up and down. Which in turn kills the stability needed for gaming.

So while napster has its place now. I as a gamer can really not wait untill it shuts its doors. Pings will be good, and I can get music someplace else.

[ 03-15-2001: Message edited by: S1lv3r ]

JamieLee2k · Post by **JamieLee2k** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 9:08 am

Napster is not closing down in July 1st it will be a pay service costing us about $2.95 month (It's worth every penny) also I can't see any reason why napster will be affected by internet games I play Half-Life (CS & TFC) and my ping is about 30 to 100 depending on the server

[ 03-15-2001: Message edited by: JLR ]

bleach · Post by **bleach** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 9:22 am

napster isn't going anywhere, screw napster.com and their pay services, there are open nap servers out there that have almost double the users and files to download and you can use napigator to connect to them using the napster client

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Thu Mar 15, 2001 9:45 am

I was saying that napster affects games. Not all cable people experience the peak time like like me and a few others I know. Some are just great anytime of day. Thats cool for you guys, but I think there are alot more of us with peak time lag, then the guys who have yippy skippy happy cable connections. If you do thats great, if you dont then you wish napster would go away, or become pay service. I think when it goes pay, and they take most of the top 40 stuff off. Then everything on my connect will be hunky dory again.