Question about speeds needed for smooth multiplayer experience.

I think your Ping plays a huge part. Most people I would say, have high ping. Most of us don't even live within 10km of a Microsoft server, usually the nearest one may be 100s of km's away - our planet is huge. Despite Microsoft opening 2 data centres in
Australia, I'm still getting average 156-230 ping. I asked my Samsung S5 it has voice commands what is the distance between Auckland and Sydney (Sydney is home to a Microsoft data centre). It replied two thousand and something kilometres. Even a plane trip
from Auckland to Sydney takes 2 hours and so many minutes on an Air New Zealand 777. I think Microsoft should open up a data centre in NZ or have servers here if they don't already. I have Ultra Fast Fibre internet 100 down 10 up and I still lag sometimes
while playing Minecraft on Xbox 360 on friends worlds. Or have connection issues unable to join some worlds sometimes. I would recommend everyone should still have at least 10mb/s download speed, but this isn't always guaranteed with ADSL Broadband (which
averages 7-14mbs down). If your download speed is slower than 5mb/s, you have a problem. Last year I went over our monthly data limit and we were slowed to dial up speed. I joined a friends Minecraft world on 360, and the chunks and world were loading sooooo
slow it was just sad. This also happens if you're on ADSL Broadband and you're say Uploading a video to Youtube. Twisted copper wiring uploading is it's greatest weakness. We have Vodafone NZ Cable Internet and I can upload videos 10x faster and play multiplayer
without it compromising my multiplayer enjoyment.

Speak for yourself Azrael - everyone's told me that if I set up my connection so it was wired that it would be much better. I finally went through the hassle of setting it up this weekend and have only seen a marginal improvement at best. What I need IS
bigger and better, because what I have right now? It's simply not good enough.

Yep....Though your ping could be a bit lower.

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Great Gamer Tag by the way. I have my fingers crossed after we lost so many in the off season.

Yeah, you can play COD over a 3G connection and it's like you're in the same room.

Of course we did that before 3G was made publically available though. Nowadays 3G cannot support online gaming.

There's no excuse for standard wired broadband not doing the job though.

If you have speeds of 1.5Mb/s down, .5Mb/s up, and a ping under 200ms, you'll be fine! Provided you are the only one using the connection at the time! ;-)

Peace, J.R.