KOOL 
 
WERES MY FRIGGIN ACHIEVMANT!!! 

Uhhhh Damn

" KOOL  WERES MY FRIGGIN ACHIEVMANT!!!  "

I wonder how long lab takes to do all this crap.

Meh, I'm alright. What exactly are they testing if they don't want you online? I would think they would be interested in the average gamers internet connection or something.

" Meh, I'm alright. What exactly are they testing if they don't want you online? I would think they would be interested in the average gamers internet connection or something. "

" KOOL  WERES MY FRIGGIN ACHIEVMANT!!!  "

I got this done overnight last night, I just put in "set it and forget it" mode before passing out.  Piece o' cake.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR BANDWIDTH..
 
You may get NOTHING for completing this shit, like I did.
 
I know its free and stupid, but really.. what a waste.

So Microsoft is using users, who most likely pay to use their service, to test things and while they are doing that users cannot use the service? Good to see the increased XBox Live subscription money is going directly into some guys pockets instead of improving the service.

" I wonder how long lab takes to do all this crap. "

" Meh, I'm alright. What exactly are they testing if they don't want you online? I would think they would be interested in the average gamers internet connection or something. "

Did it while I was at work. Now my avatar looks like Doc Brown!

"I'm completely amazed that this article lacks what might be one of the most important details about this test."

Looks like 1,100+ GB users have already started this... (I let it run while at work yesterday...)...

Is the site working again?  Still can't seem to post anywhere.
Edit: Except there, apparently.

I sighed on yesterday and it said three of my friends were playing this, then it was gone.
 
Weird eh?

" So Microsoft is using users, who most likely pay to use their service, to test things and while they are doing that users cannot use the service? Good to see the increased XBox Live subscription money is going directly into some guys pockets instead of improving the service. "

Four more hours left to go on this for me! After the 30 minutes test, you can stop and start it anytime you wish and resume your progress. It's totally optional and not a big deal at all. 

Wait, they're monitoring network settings and shit, but not letting you do anything that would affect them? I don't know if that makes sense or not.

ill stick this on before i go out tonight, no sweat, and if it helps live in some little way, cool

" Wait, they're monitoring network settings and shit, but not letting you do anything that would affect them? I don't know if that makes sense or not. "

way to offer awesome rewards MS! I would think 10K points would have been cooler and like a free 3 month subscription for helping. Seeing as Sony's network is 100% free, this would be a drop in the bucket for MS to do. For Shame!

haha finished the whole six hours just put it on and went to sleep lol

" @Video_Game_King: I'm no network specialist, but I think it would be easier to account for if all the network stuff was done with precisely known quantities. "

Oh look, what a surprise, no game labs on my community channel
 
let me guess, US only just like everything else? How wonderful

Looking forward to the quick look of this.

" Oh look, what a surprise, no game labs on my community channel  let me guess, US only just like everything else? How wonderful "

" Four more hours left to go on this for me! After the 30 minutes test, you can stop and start it anytime you wish and resume your progress. It's totally optional and not a big deal at all.  "

It's not actually US only, you can just login into a US account, DL the app, and log back into your normal account and fire it up.

Got it running now. This will keep me from playing games so I can actually get some work done.

If you load up Labs and its not your avatar, don't even bother.. its a glitch and you will get nothing

" It's not actually US only, you can just login into a US account, DL the app, and log back into your normal account and fire it up. "

Why not, it helps the service and it's free.

I did it last night as I slept, and I got some crazy hair and goggles for free.

WHY ARE ARTICLES ONLY BEING COMMENTED ON AND WHY DOES NO ONE SEEM TO NOTICE

amazed how optional means people get pissed at it. Doing it now while I'm at work, the hairstyle looks stupidly cool, 

My 360 was manufactured on November 26th, 2005. Every RROD-free second is precious, so I don't think I'm going to leave it on to run network tests...¬_¬

Done.  Wondering if getting all three of the 0 pt achivements will count as an S-Rank?

Uh, no thanks.

I'm actually interested in participating to help improve Canadian access but it looks like a localized program that excludes Canada as per usual.  I can understand Netflix and Last.fm not showing up because of rights issues but FFS if you're network testing in North America borders are not barriers!

" @CrimsonClown said:

" It's not actually US only, you can just login into a US account, DL the app, and log back into your normal account and fire it up. "

Why would you do that. They want to test the US situation, people doing this might polute the test results and for what, some avatar clothing? "

Hmm... I may have been the first person in the world to do this then, considering I started and finished last night.

Does this have anything to do with the Xbox Rewards thing?

they are probably looking for cheaters lol

Seems cool, I mean I'm not going to bother but I feel like they could probably do this in the background somehow without some people knowing... To a degree at least. 
So the fact they're publicly telling us and offering us something for pretty much doing nothing is cool. 
 
On a side note: Their points reward scheme thing is really cool too, they just deposited like 130 MS points into my account for doing what I'd normally be doing in February.  Not much but still, free's free right!