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Ps4 minimum amount of mbps to play online smoothly

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  • Playstation 4
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June 13, 2014 7:29:07 AM

am getting a ps4 and i am wondering whats the minimum amount of mbps to play online for example will 2mps be too slow to play, say battlefield 4

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a b 4 Gaming
June 13, 2014 7:43:50 AM

Mbps should be fine as long as you don't have anyone else using the internet. If you have others using the internet... well, I'd suggest learning to love Solitaire.
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June 13, 2014 7:45:02 AM

most of my family will just be on Facebook and youtube how about 5mbps
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a b 4 Gaming
June 13, 2014 7:49:45 AM

Even at 18 Mbps, you'll probably still notice some slowing down. Youtube is a major bandwidth hogger, so you're probably going to get a lot of lag spikes.
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June 13, 2014 7:54:08 AM

ok then what about downloading say if i wanted to download a 28gb game with only 5mps
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a b 4 Gaming
June 13, 2014 8:01:51 AM

A god awful long time. I don't even remember the last time I had that kind of speed. I'm sure someone will do the math for you, but you're looking at under 1 MegaByte per second.
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June 13, 2014 8:05:00 AM

ohh its just because i live somewhere were internet isn't that fat but i am moving to the UK so that might not be a problem anymore
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June 14, 2014 5:45:02 PM

Generally a 1.5mbit connection with low pings will be enough, during a multiplayer gaming session, the voice chat generally uses more throughput than the actual game related data. What is most important, is your ping.

If you have other people also using the connection, then I recommend at least 10mbit/s and QOS rules in order to ensure that services like youtube do not cause issues for your games. (multiplayer gaming is not bandwidth intensive, but it sends and receives a lot of small packets, and needs top priority so that those packets do not end up delayed due to your limited low throughput. if you have a connection of around 30-50mbit/s then no QOS is needed for you to game and for other family members to stream from youtube while also even watching netflix, those services never hit high enough speeds to ever fully occupy the connection.
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