The real expereince difference between 300, 600 and Gig is virtually nothing for most households. Bench Racing better be worth the extra $/mo if you are paying more.
The real expereince difference between 300, 600 and Gig is virtually nothing for most households. Bench Racing better be worth the extra $/mo if you are paying more.
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95% of the time I agree with you but games nowadays have so many giant fucking updates I've been using the higher speeds a lot more. (Going from 100 to 300 I'm at now, would do gigabit but cost wise its a big jump as I'm on a great deal). Nothing sucks worse than booting up a old game and then sitting 30 minutes for it to load a 20gb update.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Totally depends what you do. The last game I downloaded was 200 GB and regular updates can be in the 50-100GB range.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Also, if you do any uploading (such as photos or videos to the cloud or a backup service like Blackblaze) 20 Mbps upload (Shaw) vs 1000 Mbps upload is a world of difference.
For those who still download movies, they can be pushing 100GB as well.
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I tried my absolutely hardest to saturate my 300 connection last night. Like 200GB of Xbox game updates and downloads over a long period while doing a bit of 4K streaming on another tv and updates on my computer. 3 nest cams streaming to cloud. General usage.
Shits hard unless you exclusively pirate and torrent shit at all hours of the day.
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If you couldn't even max out 300, either something in your home network or the source your were downloading from was the weak link. It's really, really, easy to hit 300Mbps with a download even from Steam or an Nvidia driver.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don’t think you could describe any aspect of my network as anything but overkill lol
I’ll hit 330 on Speedtests both directions all day long ( and the periodic speedtests I run off my UDM document that fact) from every corner of my setup wired and wireless.
Bumping up to gigabit would personally buy me nothing.
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Xbox can only push downloads so fast, it's got a kind of shitty harddrive plus its just slow to update in general. I usually only hit ~20MB/s on my xbox whereas on my PC origin will push 30-40MB/s no problem. Same with newsgroups as well, they'll max out things.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The one benefit is my xbox can be updating and it doesn't typically affect any of our streaming devices whereas before sometimes they'd dip down in quality if things got saturated.
OK so the Xbox store or it's hardware is massively throttled then by the sounds of it. If you don't have any access to sources that can give you over 300Mbps download, and your in-home bandwitdh (netflix, etc.) doesn't exceed 300 Mbps on an aggregate basis, then there would be no real benefit from faster speeds. Nearly everything I download can max or almost max my gigabit though so it sounds more like the Xbox store is just weirdly slow or the HDD can't keep up, but even a crappy 5400 RPM drive can usually write at around 1GbpsThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I guess this is my point, for the shit I need to download the extra speed is useless as I can rarely saturate for long anyway.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Could I artificially max out my network running a 2 hour speed test? Sure but I don’t see what benefit that buys me.
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Yea it’s super bad, last night was the best I have ever seen it with peak at 200 for a couple minutes before sliding back down ( I think it gets you 2-300 burst then throttles with time). Usually it’s hard to get north of 150 out of Xbox store for any period of time.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Thank god it does most of my updating at 3AM lol.
It actually used to be worse and hard to get over 50.
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Another update.. called the 1-888-472-2222 and all they could offer was a $100 bill credit.., but suggested calling the 481-1081 number mentioned above. Ugh.
And called the other number.. same deal. Offered the same I am currently paying with a $100 credit on a 2yr deal. Now going to talk to the manager and call me back.
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Xbox and PS stores have a single connection speed cap of 300-400mbps. Most sites have such a limit for whatever reason. Only site that consistently allows me to single download full speed in my experience was MSDN and windows/macOS updates.
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Hopefully that changes with next-gen consoles. The size of games these days is getting insane, and I can't imagine things like Unreal Engine 5 will be light on space haha.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Games? Fucking updates are out of hand haha. COD was something like 70GB. Nothing like waiting 30 mins before I could play single player lol.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Originally posted by SEANBANERJEE
I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my good name
Well that's what I mean haha - 200 GB game followed by a 50+GB update every week or two. Aint nobody got time for that. Thankfully I play that on the PC so I don't have to deal with the bandwidth caps.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Where things really matter is the upload side of things. Having a good upload helps massively for many things and can help in a lot of different ways.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm glad that it wasn't just me.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Making the decision to hop to Telus an easier one.
The key is to not saturate upload. As long as you're not saturated, you're in good shape. Even with all my storage in the cloud, I've only started to saturate uploads last week. Kids started a YouTube channel and 30 min gameplay video uploads sucks.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Originally posted by SEANBANERJEE
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So I made a pretty big error when looking at the deal. You don't get the $200 prepaid Visa when you combine it with the $99 promotional pricing.
That said, a bump from 600/20 to 940/940 is still substantial for $10 more per month.
Yeah, you either get promo pricing, or prepaid one time credit. Can't get both no matter how hard you try to haggle.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I find the promo pricing you get with the rep outweighs the one-time credit that was meant to suck you in.
I just got off the phone with Shaw. The lady said that the best she could do was keep me on the Internet 600 plan for $100. I told her that was the same price as the 750mbps plan they offered and she shrugged haha.
She said she filled out a form to have someone from their "long term loyalty team" call me back in the next 24 hours.
So bizarre lol. Will see what they can do.