Interent speed question

I have 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps upload. My question is that enough to run the game on 2 PS3's, a Wii U playing Netflix, and a laptop for Team-speak or do I need more???? And if I do how much more?

i have 1.5 Mbps(playing on a wireless connection) and the game runs ok for me on my ps3

Should be. My connection is similar, and I have had 2 PCs running online games, hosting a vent server, had netflix running in HD, on a laptop, and another person online also, so good odds you will be alright.

too many numbers.../headexplode

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Originally Posted by Alousolu

I have 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps upload. My question is that enough to run the game on 2 PS3's, a Wii U playing Netflix, and a laptop for Team-speak or do I need more???? And if I do how much more?

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Typically netflix requires about 5-7down to stream in HD. So that alone will cause a conflict in your house :) Ps3 recommends 1.5 Mbps up for low ping no lag gaming.

Also server location will play in more with your local speeds. NA/EU servers are located in Montreal, so your speeds will be even more taxed if you live on say, the west coast.

I would probably switch to your isp's fastest residential tier of service. In my area it goes economy, 3down 1.5up, performance 25down 5up, and blast 50down, 10up.

If you were to run everything simultaneously then yes there may well be problems with the bandwidth. But as far as your speed goes, there really isn't any need to improve it.

It's generally states that you approximately need 0.7Mbps to be able to access an online game. You'd need about 2Mbps for it to run at an acceptable standard (depends on your ISP).

As the poster above me just said, one of the key elements in in online gaming is not so much the speed, but rather, how fast the ping is to the server.
You could probably find out the IP of the Montreal server and run a pingtest in the Cmd prompt if you have access to a windows machine to roughly calculate your network latency.

Honestly, if you have a stable connection (one that stays constant at your speeds) you should be able to do it, I'm not sure about Netflix but the rest should be no problem. I have a connection 3x what you said, but it sometimes fluctuates so much that I can't even have 2 computers running an MMO at the same time. (even though it's usually ok)

That should be more than enough speed to handle all that. However, if anything were an issue it would be netflix. You can get software to limit the speed netflix uses if it ends up being an issue.