We'll first off people really need to learn the monkiers since Megabyte is a standard of measurement in storage and megabit is your standard in speed, all internet speeds are measured by the megabit.
any thing over 1 Mbps is a good connection speed when it comes to broadband but its the lower end of good its gonna get you where your going, any ways in most net gaming your going to want to be more worried about upload speed since download speed just doesn't need to be that good its your uplaod speed that needs to be up to par for smooth gaming, I personally want a verizon fios connection rated to give me even download and upload speeds of around 5mbps.
As of right now im running comcast which gives me 12-16mbps down and 2-3 mbps up.
You should be fine with anything above 512 kbps (to play on someone else's server).
Lag is caused by the server. You will need at least 1 mbps UPLOAD (NOT DOWNLOAD) to host a decent game, and if the person hosting has a crappy computer you will lag even if you have a good DOWNLOAD.
Hosting means you need to UPLOAD. Connecting to someone's server means you need to DOWNLOAD. You do need to do both but most of it is as I mentioned.
That's how it is on PC, I don't think XBL is any different.
I play games at 10 Mbps (~1.25 MBps), which is quite a bit slower than 2 MBps, so I think you're fine. Hell, where I live 10 Mbps is the fastest you can get.
" We'll first off people really need to learn the monkiers since Megabyte is a standard of measurement in storage and megabit is your standard in speed, all internet speeds are measured by the megabit."
I totally agree with you on that point. As someone with a degree in computer engineering, stuff like this kills me.
Anyway, I currently have a 2 Mbps (that's megabits per second) connection, and I rarely have any issues playing games on Xbox Live.
I was forced to downgrade from 8Mbps to 1 to actually afford food and it's terrible. Probably not as bad if you live in the states since odds are that almost every game host is from the US. Oh well, at least I get patches and DLC.
" megaBITS or megaBYTES?if A) then god no if B) then yehin fact if A) how the hell do you play them on 7.0Mbps anyway?and i'm
Whether it's megabits or megabytes, two of them is far more than enough. Two megabits per second comes out to 900 megabytes an hour and playing games on XBOX Live requires more like 10 to 20 megabytes an hour down and 6 megabytes up. A little more if the game's netcode is poor and a lot more up if you're the one hosting a game with a lot of players. Even if you doubled the amount of bandwidth required for XBOX Live (30 down and 12 up) you'd still have enough on a 2 megabit per second connection to run many XBOX machines online simultaneously.
20 megabytes down per hour is 12 kilobytes per second, which is 92 kilobits per second -- or 0.08 megabits per second.
You could still have latency issues (especially if your provider or someone along the stream does cruddy shaping to your connection that interferes), but in that case it wouldn't matter if you had 2 megabits per second or a full OC3.
" We'll first off people really need to learn the monkiers since Megabyte is a standard of measurement in storage and megabit is your standard in speed, all internet speeds are measured by the megabit.
I completely understand the confusion people have, though, because a file on one end is in bytes, the speed of its transfer is in bits, and the data is measured in bytes again once it's received (and of course, don't break their brains by introducing them to the difference between binary and base-ten measurements of storage and their simultaneous use in the industry!).
" We'll first off people really need to learn the monkiers since Megabyte is a standard of measurement in storage and megabit is your standard in speed, all internet speeds are measured by the megabit.
I completely understand the confusion people have, though, because a file on one end is in bytes, the speed of its transfer is in bits, and the data is measured in bytes again once it's received (and of course, don't break their brains by introducing them to the difference between binary and base-ten measurements of storage and their simultaneous use in the industry!). "
Most any game should be fine with just half a Mbit unless something went seriously wrong with the netcode, as long as you connect to people in the same region.
I play on 12 Mbps, and honestly I don't notice any significant change from when I used 2. Having a high Mbps is useful for hosting games, though. But that's about it.
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