Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I was wondering what subscriptions people who have multiple online gamers in their household have. More specifically what connection speed. Me and my wife are frequent online competitive gamers and currently have a subscription with base that’s 200 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload. Now it surely is enough for us but I noticed Hey! has a similar subscription which can save us €15 a month but only has 10 Mbps upload speed but I’m not sure if that is still enough for being gaming online at the same time?
We need to use the Telenet network unfortunatly since they didn’t install the proximus connection when they were building our appartement…
Thanks for any advice or tips.
A low and stable ping (latency) is most important for online competitive gaming. High speeds are nice but not that important.
Fiber is the best technology to get a low and stable ping. VDSL also provides a stable ping, but speeds are lower.
Coaxial cable is a really bad choice for gaming, there are ping spikes during peak hours because bandwidth is shared with hundreds of users in the neighborhood. When everyone is online, jitter and ping will be much worse than on fiber of VDSL.
The Proximus network is available in the street, you should connect your apartment to the Proximus network to get the most stable connection: https://www.proximus.be/en/id_cr_building/personal/moving-a-worry-free-experience/building-a-house.html
Ik heb telenet Basic internet (sociaal abo, dus minste spec) en deed net een speedtest: 92Mb/s down, 9Mb/s up, ping 16 ms en jitter 1 ms. Dat is toch helemaal niet slecht voor een coax verbinding?
Take that test again between 8 pm and 10 pm. On fiber ping is < 5 ms and on VDSL ping is < 10 ms
So, fiber or VDSL has lower ping and that makes a difference if you want to be a winner in online competitive gaming.
hoe doe je een speedtest?
Speedtest.net
dank je. heb een vrij lange ping maar voor mij is dat geen probleem. eerder kunnen surfen zonder limiet op gb want ik kijk tv op mijn laptop en volg educatieve videos op youtube.
https://speed.cloudflare.com
Mobile vikings is perfect priced for this and I never had a problem
Yes, it's enough.
It's even enough for a small lan party :-)
Marketing teams just know that gamers tend to spend a lot for having the best build/connection. That's why all these "gaming packages" have high bandwidth and high prices.
fiber 200mbps and good ping is perfect, for streaming at good quality requires 20mbps but for only gaming is not that important unless you want to build a cloud gaming server for play out of the house with a tablet, , for serious competitive get a good router with qos feature