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"PS2 hard drive to hold 100Mb a second interface for broadband play!!? is this true???"

i red today that the ps 2 hardrive will have a 40Gb capacity and will be able to to cleanly stream data from broad band networks at 100Mb a second!!!!

thats fast!!

lets hope its true coz high pings and lag wil be a thing of the past!!!

i red today that the ps 2 hardrive will have a 40Gb capacity and will be able to to cleanly stream data from broad band networks at 100Mb a second!!!!

thats fast!!

lets hope its true coz high pings and lag wil be a thing of the past!!!

It is true, yes.

Lag etc. may still be present, though not as noticeable as on a modem. After all, it depends as much on server speed as it does on connection speed.

The unit should be available in Japan around June/July, and is due for release here by the end of the year.

Lets hope they give us the same deal as the Japanese and the US, and not rip us off with a slower modem (like Sega) or give us a smaller HD.

This may sound awesome, but can you use it on a convertional phone line? I'm pretty sure i read somewhere you need to get you phone line updated to use broadband!

Anyone know?

Unless they supply some kind of converter, you will not be able to use it on a conventional phoneline. Phonelines are simply not designed to handle that sort of capacity.

If it could work over a phoneline, everyone would already have it.

so if thats the case what do we do? how many spondoolies will it cost us

BT are doing broadband at a cost of £39.99 a month, that price includes unlimited internet access.

£39.99 a month??? What a rip-off! Meka - tell your bosses they're rip-off merchants!

NTL is £19.99 a month for permanent, always-on net access.

Not available everywhere, but a much more acceptable price. I'll be switching to it later this year, after my holiday.

I'd switch to it, but where I live we can't have cables laid. So until BT drops it's ADSL price, or I move, I think I'm stuffed. Unless anyone else knows any better?

When you say 100Mb are you talking in Mega Bit or Mega Byte. As ff it was Mega Byte that would be very fast as 56k Modems only go at 0.005Mb(Mega Bytes) a second. With the BT broadband and NTL they offer around 10 times faster than a 56k modem. BT do offer a higher speed but that is more expensive and for Businesses.