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Thread ID: 126663 2012-09-11 00:11:00 Wellington New Zealand fibre install kingdragonfly (309) Press F1
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1300192 2012-09-12 23:11:00 I don't think super fast would benefit gamers at all, unless they had to share the connection with other users who used a lot of bandwidth. Games are all about ping times, the actual speed required is fairly low. My ADSL connection is only about 16Mb down 800~900kb up and we've had 2 ppl gaming while a download was running fairly successfully, without the download it's very able to handle two simultaneous online gamers without a hitch. Unthrottled torrents on the other hand can hog all the available bandwidth so if someone in the house does that gaming becomes impossible. dugimodo (138)
1300193 2012-09-12 23:47:00 Good point.

Currently there's so few people on fibre, sharing bandwidth is less of a concern. You're much much likely to hit your plan's bandwith "governor".

en.wikipedia.org

On my cheaper plan that 30Mbps / 10Mbps
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