Is 1Mbps apartment block Wifi worth it?

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X1R0K

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Hi,

I'm staying at an apartment-style residential area and they offer 1Mbps unlimited Wifi per block (can't estimate the number of residents but it's about 10 floors high). Would this be sufficient for watching 40-minute videos, torrenting and online gaming (namely Left 4 Dead 2 and MMORPGs)?

Thanks for your help!
 
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Autocrat
Not really. An HD Netflix stream uses about 5-6mb/s. Rule of thumb with WiFi is take whatever you were promised and cut it in half. So realistically you will probably have a 500kb/s connection. Even at promised speeds, downloading a movie for example would take over an hour.
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Not really. An HD Netflix stream uses about 5-6mb/s. Rule of thumb with WiFi is take whatever you were promised and cut it in half. So realistically you will probably have a 500kb/s connection. Even at promised speeds, downloading a movie for example would take over an hour.
 
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If it is free take it, but you won't do as much as surfing the news, some social networking (a bit slow) and emails. Youtube in perhaps 360p if it works.
I have a 3-4Mbps connection (which is slow) and I can use it with 720p youtube and netflix but only if no one else is using.

I would recommend to get another internet connection if you want to do some gaming and torrenting.

Regards
 
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