I think your last sentence may have hinted at the reason. You can't download if you don't have a signal.

@sub150: I think if it's that bad, the lack of Internet is the least of our worries.

@mricyfire: Why does the East coast have a superiority complex?

@Dacker: Yeah. Coming from someone in the desert, my PS3 looks like ass.

@schall129: That was my thought exactly. We have a local dairy that's putting in a solar array made of large reflectors that will focus the sun on stirling engines. The setup looks like a futuristic C-band satellite dish.

Doesn't solve the Eastern Canada thing, but using Arizona makes more sense since we don't screw around with that DST crap.

@Addzter: Here's the image, sans the ellipsis in the link URL.

Holy crap. Last time I'd tested mine I was lucky to hit 8mb/s down. Just tried 5 different places/servers and it's averaging about 16Mb/s down, with a pathetic .36Mb/s up. It would be great to see them work a bit more on the upload side.

@walkingagh: They're about to start construction on one like this near Phoenix, called the Solana plant. And there's an even bigger 290mW photovoltaic under way here in Yuma County.

@Ccomfort: The palm tree ones are the only ones that come close, IMO. We've had one of those here for about ten years. I know of at least one flagpole-style one that's been in Phoenix for about 15 years.

@xaronax: Isn't cheating on the SAT or a placement test about as logical as cheating on an eye exam?

@Maave: I guess that's the version with Blu-ray?

If the control is that big of a deal, splurge for the $20 Sony PS3 Blu-ray remote. Works great, even turns the thing on and off.

@Decad3nce: Yeah, that about sums it all up.

Not that uncommon. You can find that around a lot of airports. It just took off from Santa Monica apparently, and the blurring is because of the speed it's moving at.

@itsnewman08: No, because Apple disabled it too fast. Had they left it activated, and Giz noticed, it might have been more of an incentive to fix the problem before release. But instead, they try to hide the fact that they knew it was a major issue by pushing their stupid little 'bumpers' and blaming it on users.

@NuevoLeon: Hmm... guess it might be worth abusing my work email for a year then.

It's the admin password for the entire Internet.

@smcallah: But it's kinda hard to loan someone else your finger.

It's like the German Consumer Reports test for GPSs.