I know that this is a repeated question, but I would like to take your opinions, I am moving in into a new place, the house package comes with all bills included, however, the internet speed offered is 10 mbps download speed with 3 mbps upload speed, given that I will be living alone, would that be enough to play WoW lag free?
He also offered me to remove the internet price and let me add my preferred package, so this is why I came here to take opinions.
WoW needs remarkably little bandwidth⌠but I would be suspicious that a 10/3 line might be high latency, which will affect you.
Plus you may struggle with things like Netflix or Youtube in 1080p, especially if you want to do something else at the same time.
Personally Iâd want at least 30mbit to cover these cases and have some reasonable assurance itâs not an old copper wire that canât do any better than âslowâ.
10/03 mbit is not adequate for the current era. you can play but everything else will require planning.
plus ping matters, so even if 10/3 is fine, you may experience lag anyway.
One other thing you may need to investigate is if you have a data cap! All well and good being able to play, but no good if actually downloading data is going to cost you a fortune.
^ This.
When I first moved into the flat I am living in now, I had 7MB download and it was totally fine. It was only the patches etc that took longer to download. I moved to Virgin Media now so I have 90MBish, but gameplay is no different now than it was then.
For playing WoW, as long as the ping is low, it should be fine, but I suggest you to investigate which other options and which prices are otherwise available.
That kind of bandwidth is ridiculously low for todayâs standards in general.
Can you ask if you can take his package and âTrialâ it? Youâd know pretty quickly if its up to your requirements. Chances are it will be âadequateâ like others said unless you want to stream high res stuffs.
If you have good mobile phone reception and a decent data package you could play off that in the unlikely event his package blows completely (just play, not download patches!)
And just as a benchmark, I just tested my download and its 35mb/sec and Iâm on a cheapo package with no bells or whistles.
Iâm on 10/5 for over a decade (waiting for my small town to get optics) and itâs more than enough for playing, but downloading major patches takes hours.
