5G for gaming?
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The family home in London has Virgin fiber, no option for the building here in Yorkshire. It is just my particular building, it's an old converted mill, BT has no intention of upgrading. Plusnet actually gave me six months free because it sucks so bad.
4G works fine so 5G should be OK too.
I heard latency can be pretty high on 4G.
My wifi router connects at 5G, 100 MB/s. I also have a 4G connection which I don't use. I've used it for 3 years, no problems, no different from a 25 MB/s connection I had before with Verizon. The computer is the chokepoint, rather than the wifi, I think.
I suspect the question would be how do you play?
If you are playing solo I imagine it would be fine, if you want to play in open with other perhaps not so much.
Still, I'm not an expert on 5g so pinch of salt and all that.
But wifi through a 5G phone, rather than router, could be different - subject to throttling by the network provider.
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Played with it for a few months and it worked perfectly, no observable difference to Cable or ADSL.
For Solo Mode, an Edge connection with an old brick phone is technically sufficient. Anything better is okay, since the bandwidth and latency requirements are extremely low.
(opening a Mission Board will take a few seconds using a low-end Edge connection though)
But whatever connection you use, it must be >stable<... If it gets frequent disconnects, the reconnect via 5G will be typically quick and might even go unnoticed - but can result in a different IP address, which the Game doesn't like >at all< and will cause errors/disconnects (IP change during Session).
Only thing one has to keep in mind are any of the usual GB limits attached to such a deal.
Worst-case, the System is a vanilla Windows 10 Installation and can suck up xx GB of bandwidth for undesired auto-updates. That's something to keep in mind when considering such a deal.
For Solo Mode, an Edge connection with an old brick phone is technically sufficient. Anything better is okay, since the bandwidth and latency requirements are extremely low.
(opening a Mission Board will take a few seconds using a low-end Edge connection though)
But whatever connection you use, it must be >stable<... If it gets frequent disconnects, the reconnect via 5G will be typically quick and might even go unnoticed - but can result in a different IP address, which the Game doesn't like >at all< and will cause errors/disconnects (IP change during Session).
Only thing one has to keep in mind are any of the usual GB limits attached to such a deal.
Worst-case, the System is a vanilla Windows 10 Installation and can suck up xx GB of bandwidth for undesired auto-updates. That's something to keep in mind when considering such a deal.
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What is the fastest you've reached on Steam? I've reached 79 megabytes per second on multiple occasions, which I guess works out to 632 megabits on my fiber connections. I've had speed tests hit high 800s mbps before, so maybe Steam does limit. Either way, I can't complain.
I have 2 1 Gigabit connections that my firewall aggregates and load balances. Despite having that much bandwidth, steam won’t feed me more than about 92 Megabytes/sec. My gaming hosts have 10gig connectivity internally and M.2 drives. They are not the bottleneck. Steam is.
I think most “home” 5g routers will have longer dynamic Ip leases or even a static Ip option. We shall see .....
I think most “home” 5g routers will have longer dynamic Ip leases or even a static Ip option. We shall see .....
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I have an asus wireless router with 4g an 5g , while the signal from the 4g is stronger the bandwidth is much better on the 5g .. have played elite and some FPS games , personally i havent had many downsides associated with it.
I downloaded 80gb games at 700 kbps
Recently had an issue with trying to establish a wing connection with a friend (me in UK he was in DE), eventually he tried a wireless hotspot from his 4G phone and everything was fine. The point being running on his phone we were able to have a 2 person wing, both with NPC SLF's which ran fine in a busy CNB. I think his data usage ran to about 200 Mb for an hour session. Obviously any latency will be affected by providers network but in our case it was working fine, and the experiment allowed us to identify that the issue lay somewhere with his ISP/router rather than his Xbox. , Turned out his hardwired router had had an enforced update which caused a NAT type issue.
If you are using a mobile connection via wifi, you can set it as a metered connection via the wifi options menu and it will stop the automatic download of updates.
As for the game, I have two ways of connecting and they're both 4G. A home line with no data cap but limited to 20/30 Mb down and 3-5 up, and my phone one with a 10 GB monthly cap but reaching up to 80-90 down and 15-20 up. Always played perfectly with both, even in CQC and even on a moderately high ping (usually in the 40-50 ms on nearest Speedtest servers).
@777Driver ED seems rather tolerant on network requirements, I think you'll do fine on anything better than 5-6 Mb down and under 100 ms ping.
A note on Steam: it definitely throttles certain connections, usually on a provider basis. My home provider gets capped at a max 600 KB/s download, I need to login to Steam via VPN to let it download at the average 2-2.5 MB/s it should actually do.
(And no, I don't rage-uninstall games, or I'll pay the consequences dearly
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Benchmark it.
You can go 5G but beware a Huawei Headlook Hack! 