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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. does it
by 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 agoWfH 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 agoI 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)