How much would it cost to build the infrastructure to put all league players on a private network?

Critkeeper·8/30/2014, 9:55:09 PM·1 votes·691 views

I'm talking about a network that isn't connected to the internet. Imagine if everyone on league of legends somehow connected to a private network that isn't physically connected with the internet.

Why? Because having your network open to the internet means your server is like a tiny fish in a big pond, no matter how many millions you spend on bandwidth there will always be a bigger fish and even if not then there will always be an enormous school of smaller fishes. The point is you can be overwhelmed by collective bandwidth of computers on the internet in a distributed denial of service attack.

So here is a completely hypothetical idea:

Imagine if everyone had to purchase a satellite receiver at a discount from RIOT and RIOT had private satellites in orbit to bounce the signals directly to their servers without ever going through the internet. Like the network itself isn't connected to the internet at all. You'd have a private protocol and network.

Now I'm not saying that is the best way to go about making a private network that could encompass the entire league user base! I'm just spitballing an idea here. What WOULD be the best / cheapest way to put all league players on a private network, and how much would it cost?

Could RIOT even afford that?

2 Comments

redniwediS8/30/2014, 10:17:06 PM2 votes

It would take something like Google to set this up, and even then it would take a significant amount of their money. What you're basically asking for is a private version of the internet that is fully wireless and dedicated to League. The problem with this idea is that it would not be private. Literally anyone can gain access to it as League is a free game that allows anyone to play, and with such easy access comes the ability to mess with the network.

Unless you want League to have a lengthy application process tied to account creation your idea won't come close to fixing the problem, and might not even fix it with the applications.

Billdo8/31/2014, 2:35:53 AM1 votes

Do you know how slow SatComms are compared to wired?

Also do you know how expensive it is to put a sat into the Geo orbit that it would require for this?

So in short, NO.