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It does make a difference if you have anyone in your house doing gaming (games are HUGE now), and it makes a big difference for me on work from home. Especiall

It does make a difference if you have anyone in your house doing gaming (games are HUGE now), and it makes a big difference for me on work from home. Especially the difference between A&A’s fastest 160/30 service and Openreach’s 1000/115 - the extra upload is more important than the extra download for me! edit: A&A’s issue with gigabit at the moment is caused by one of their strengths - A&A make firebrick routers, which are what they run their broadband platform on. It gives them more control and great monitoring. But the higher bandwidth versions aren’t ready yet, so they can’t really sell faster services yet.

blibble 5y ago
> It does make a difference if you have anyone in your house doing gaming (games are HUGE now), and it makes a big difference for me on work from home. does it? just checked my router, my WFH VLAN has consumed 21gb down/7.7gb up in the last 64 days so 2xmonitor fullscreen citrix is using about 300mb down/120mb up per day and my gaming VLAN used about 20kb/s when playing Overwatch I doubt you will notice any difference between 160/30 fibre and 1000/115 fibre!
- aaronmdjones 5y ago
  > and my gaming VLAN used about 20kb/s when playing Overwatch I gather GP was referring more to the /size/ of the games, not the amount of traffic consumed while playing them. Most of the major AAA games are more than about a hundred gigabytes these days. My installation of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is 153 GB for example.
- minimaul 5y ago
  WfH for me includes pushing content and containers about - 115 up helps a LOT there. MSFS is actually a bad example, the download servers are wacky at least in the UK - you won't sustain more than about 250mbit. But other titles from services like Steam download in a lot less time - I can max out my line quite happily from Steam - and do with alarming frequency!
- tokamak-teapot 5y ago
  I thing the gaming issue isn't the bandwidth while playing - more the huge downloads (new games and updates) that many games require these days. (yes latency is important too - just discussing bandwidth here)

blibble 5y ago

> It does make a difference if you have anyone in your house doing gaming (games are HUGE now), and it makes a big difference for me on work from home. does it? just checked my router, my WFH VLAN has consumed 21gb down/7.7gb up in the last 64 days so 2xmonitor fullscreen citrix is using about 300mb down/120mb up per day and my gaming VLAN used about 20kb/s when playing Overwatch I doubt you will notice any difference between 160/30 fibre and 1000/115 fibre!

aaronmdjones 5y ago
> and my gaming VLAN used about 20kb/s when playing Overwatch I gather GP was referring more to the /size/ of the games, not the amount of traffic consumed while playing them. Most of the major AAA games are more than about a hundred gigabytes these days. My installation of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is 153 GB for example.
minimaul 5y ago
WfH for me includes pushing content and containers about - 115 up helps a LOT there. MSFS is actually a bad example, the download servers are wacky at least in the UK - you won't sustain more than about 250mbit. But other titles from services like Steam download in a lot less time - I can max out my line quite happily from Steam - and do with alarming frequency!
tokamak-teapot 5y ago
I thing the gaming issue isn't the bandwidth while playing - more the huge downloads (new games and updates) that many games require these days. (yes latency is important too - just discussing bandwidth here)