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minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours ago You can game lag free and have VoIP calls with zero interruption on 5Mbps. Yeah on like… 2-4 devices total lol. What if I want to play MariokartDS online with 8 of my friends on the same connection? My WEP router advertises 11 Mbps WiFi, I want to use the whole thing. ^/s
minus-squarepcr3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoI see the /s , but I remember hosting 16 people lobbies with 5 Mbps. Its not about bandwidth, but more throughput. Yes, some overhead will cause bandwidth issues, but most of it is THROUGHPUT (ping/ latency).
Yeah on like… 2-4 devices total lol.
What if I want to play MariokartDS online with 8 of my friends on the same connection?
My WEP router advertises 11 Mbps WiFi, I want to use the whole thing.
^/s
I see the /s , but I remember hosting 16 people lobbies with 5 Mbps. Its not about bandwidth, but more throughput. Yes, some overhead will cause bandwidth issues, but most of it is THROUGHPUT (ping/ latency).