Ok well, this is my first post as you can see.
And I thought I would start with something some of us have to deal with constantly and needless to say, it grinds our gears. Out of all the issues that bother us Gamers: game ratings, Anti gaming laws and those naerdowell politicians who try to stop games from getting into the hands of gamers. There is one problem that annoys us so constantly. That problem is Dial-up. Yeah thats right dial up.

These people are easy to spot because we are the ones who always have friends download music for us and are subjected to only playing on live at their friend's house. You'll see them in social slayer matches, not even necessarily on the same team either, which is always annoying. It usually has matches ending with people saying "This is why I hate social slayer". But then again, can you blame them? What other options are there?

Chances are, if they don't have high speed its because its not available in their area and well, Satellite internet just frankly sucks. Most of them aren't willing to pickup a 1 month card because they will seldomly use it. Or If they do have a year subscription card, they won't use it until they have live at their home (like me). Personally, I will buy a month subscription card so I'm not stuck in social slayer or using someone elses profile, because everyone hates that and I can have my own stats and use a headset.

But the one thing that bothers me the most about these internet service providers is that they are more concerened with putting limits on your bandwidth and patroling the internet when they should be focusing on expanding their service and making it available to a greater number of people.

Why is it that America keeps going down in rank for availability and bandwidth while third world countries are having a greater coverage area? Not to mention our lack of 3G service areas. Sure we have a bigger area to cover but come on, its not like we live out in the middle of nowhere. When people are willing to pay for overpriced services, is it really too much to ask for them to step up the bandwidth and not put limits on it? Is it too much to ask for them not to determine what sites we should and should not go to? Is a little service just too much to ask for?