Upload Bandwidth for online games

Smitho3 · 7 Sep 2008 at 17:38

How much upload bandwidth is generally used when gaming online?

I ask as i am hosting a LAN party and need to know if i am going to have to contact Virgin for an upgrade

Cheers

sunlitsix · 7 Sep 2008 at 18:10

its relatively low, but it also depends on how many people will be at this LAN?

Smitho3 · 7 Sep 2008 at 18:18

There will be 10 people

radderfire · 7 Sep 2008 at 18:21

I found this:

"Upload speed is very important to online gaming, a minimum of 280Kbps is required to avoid gaming problems, and fortunately most UK broadband providers have 480Kbps upload speeds."

but I'm not an online gamer, I'm sure others will tell you if this is about correct, I guess it depends a lot on what games you are playing too.

tolien · 7 Sep 2008 at 18:35

That's garbage - you'll get by on ISDN without a problem, and >256kbps upload is still pretty recent.

ali825 · 8 Sep 2008 at 11:04

when ever we had lan party at uni, we found that you could get away with a low upload speed, if there was not to much online talking, because voice took at lot of data, tho does take some of the fun away

FrenchTart · 8 Sep 2008 at 11:23

If you've got 10 people all connected to an online server then you'll want more than 256kbit upload really - otherwise you might have to start messing with maxpackets type settings/etc.

pennywise · 9 Sep 2008 at 10:58

ali825 said:
when ever we had lan party at uni, we found that you could get away with a low upload speed, if there was not to much online talking, because voice took at lot of data, tho does take some of the fun away

If you're spread out around the house and need to communicate with each other, just host a TS/Ventrilo server locally on someones PC to save using up bandwidth over the interwebs.