This.
Games actually use less bandwidth than people realize. Streaming movies, music, etc use more. Streaming content at higher frame rates can use a ton but games are tiny.
I got the 1000 Mbps Up/Down speed with centurylink for $65 a month, though my PC gets around 650 Mbps Download / 500 Mbps Upload over 5GHz Wifi. I downloaded my entire Steam Library (50+ games) in under 2 hours onto a new M.2 NVMe SSD. Aside from downloading updates lightning fast, itâs not really all that useful unless you have a lot of people streaming in the same household simultaneously.
Nope, as far as game wise no differenceâŠhave a 1gbps at house and ainât going to lie nice to down load game from scratch in 4 min
I pay for Gigabit and most of the time itâs slightly below that but there was a few times it was over @1.3 but Iâm sure my provider noticed and adjusted it asap to be 1giga.
It all depends on the distance you are from the boxes down the street among other factors.
If you are paying for 2gig Iâd expect to be getting at least 1.6 out of it. Anything lower you should be calling them up to help fix it or paying the 1gig price and getting 1giga.
Once you get past around 2 mbps, there isnât really any big difference gameplay wise for WoW. Latency is what really matters (time between when you push a button and the server receives the command). From what Iâve seen, higher speed connections typically are closer to bigger cities and result in lower latency for that reason, but it isnât always the case.
The next biggest factor in gameplay is the speed of your computer. FPS (framerate) is largely determined by your graphics card. If you have an old toaster that you are playing on, you probably wonât have a good framerate. Load times are largely determined by the speed of your hard drive. SSDs will give you a much faster load times between zones, when launching wow, cutscenes, etc.
Hope that helps.
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Itâs all about ping and your systemâs performance. The only thing download speeds really do for WoW is download patches faster.
The game play through put is relatively small. Latency is much more important but even with a good connection lag issues seem to be mostly at blizzards end.
SSD and moving from 8 to 16 gigs of ram provided the biggest performance upgrade for me. After that itâs video card and CPU and I think WoW benefits from CPU more than most games.
Once you reach the speeds where you arenât being throttled by bandwidth, it doesnât matter. I have 100 mbps and have 0 issues with speed.
As mentioned above me, ping and your system specs are a big factor too.
I have a 10 to 40mbps internet, but my pings and latency are super low. For an online game Iâd be much more interested in ping times and latency, not overall bandwidth past a certain minimum amount.
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Actually, what typically matters most is your ping on those speed tests. You can have 1Gb internet, and someone with 100Mb can âoutperformâ you in games because they have a fiber line with 0ms ping while you have 90 on your cable line.
Miss my fiber 
How close to the server is what matters.