Hi everyone!
I am moving in the next week and am setting up my internet. I am considering either a 200 or 400 mbps plan from xfinity. Would I notice a big difference from 400 vs 200 while gaming, or would this only speed up downloads? I am trying to decide if the additional cost is worth it.
FYI, there will only be two people in the house at a time using the internet.
I think you’ll do fine with just the 200. I had below 100 while camping and hardly noticed anything unless I hit super populated zones.
BUT, I also play with a minimum of 120 ping cause I’m from Europe. SOO, wait for some experts…
Minimum 120 ping! I found another!
I just live in a really rural and undeveloped area of the united states.
Bro I play on 12 mbps without any issues… 50+ is overkill for any online game. But downloading them is a whole other story.
Checking in with AT&T A-DSL, 5mbs on a good day, 40kbs up, yes Kilos. Usually under 150ms latency and I play casual content fine so long as no one else in house is downloading or updating. All that blazing technology and only $150 a month (plus overage charges of another $60 to $100 each month.) And I’m within 15 miles of an MSA 100k city. I hate AT&T. Only connection I can get until Elon gets more satellites in the sky.
I think ping is more relevant than your choice for mbps.
I have around 100mbs, and share this with other gamers without much issue.
Generally, anything over 10mbps down and 1 mbps up is a-okay for gaming, and you can game at lower speeds too, but may not have such a nice time in P2P networked games
Lol whatever net speed we get today is over kill.
4 mbps down 0.6 mbps up here with no issues
This game was designed to be played over dial up.
I noticed no difference from 5 to 25 to 300 Mbps but all times I got fairly good ping to the server (considering I’m in Canada not the US).
Latency is the more important thing. Using a wired connection (and not mobile or satellite ) any speeds should be fine.
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I use my phone as a hot spot to get on internet…
If playing wow does not need a super fast connection…I get around 50 to 75 ms home and world…
Now when I am home I have a gig and home is 20ish ms and so is world
See if T-Mobile is offering their home internet service in your area. They have been going hard into rural areas in the U.S., probably trying to get a foothold before the satellite internet guys like Elon Musk get their high speed, low latency service more widespread coverage. If its like their regular 5G service, the ping times for T-Mobile are very low according to Speedtest.
I play with like 0.5-2 mbps, and WoW is mostly fine. Literally played WoW on my phones hotspot on a laptop in a van on the interstate heading to Florida with the family one time
I’m not going to label myself as an expert but download speed for online gaming is largely irrelevant as far as performance issues go, especially at 200 let alone 400.
All that number means is you download stuff faster…which 200 is already pretty dang good. To think of it another way if you need to download 50gb of data a 200 speed is going to do it in roughly 4.5 minutes or half that at 400. However uless you throttle the download speed you will still suck up all the bandwidth and you will lag for the duration of it. But when you can download pretty much anything in a few minutes not really a big deal. It matters for people with far less download speed where it could take 10-30 minutes or even longer.
I think I only get like 10 or 15 down to be honest. I’m supposed to get more but I’m using powerline adapter and I think that is crippling me. Doesn’t really impact me expect for game downloads and I do that when I go to bed instead.
Woah, people have 200mbps for WoW? I have 60mbps and I share it 
Does it change anything in the game? I also have 8gb computer random access memory and I’m not sure which one of the two (computer, internet) I should upgrade down the road.
The keyword there is “largely.” The patches are in the gigabyte range nowadays. On my old dsl connection that would have taken days. And the 30GB+ client download every xpac or reinstall would have taken weeks. lol
In recent years since moving, I have been playing on a 1.5Mbps/768Kbps DSL connection, and it’s generally been similar to when I had a 30x faster cable connection, except in cases where 80-player battlegrounds or in other 40-player raid group situations when sometimes I can saturate my upload. I don’t have too many problems playing; however, I am definitely glad that a local provider is extending their fiber-to-the-home service to me in the next few months: 1Gbps symmetrical for $70/month versus 1.5Mbps DSL for $118…yep, I’m in.
Latency, packet loss, and ping jitter—high jitter can be very…un-fun…just like improper frame timing on a graphics card—are really more important in terms of how the game feels network-wise than download speeds past a certain pretty low point. Upload can be an issue, but at 200 or 400Mbps, I imagine the upload speed you are provisioned at would be a non-issue, since it hopefully not be sub 1Mbps. If I was choosing between 200 and 400Mbps, I would do it solely on how patient you are waiting for downloads.