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Did they buy extra coverage for the event? I've been to football games and mardi gras and they don't have issues with coverage and that's a lot more than 20k people even if they're not all playing it should be similar unless PMG is really really bad with bandwidth.

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They apparently had exactly 0 mobile cells. Anyone who's been asked has said they didn't notice any.

That seems like the most obvious thing you would do for an event like this. Are they really that bad?

Bandwidth amount wise - really not that much.

Looking at my history (pretty active player) I've used about 184 MB since June 24th (I am not as active on weekends so for the sake of this example I actually played 18 days out of the month averaged about the same per day). On average that means about 10.2 MB per day of playing (looking at the graph, however, I would say I used about 20 MB the day of the event as I was out for about twice as much time that day).

I don't think that is considered a lot

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