Is 10mbps fast

Do not suffer through 10mbs. I was on a 1Gb line then moved to 10Mbs... streaming was fine for the most part but downloading games or any big updates was a nightmare. I ended up moving to 100/100 because the 10/10 was driving me nuts. go for atleast 50/50. you will thank me later. Your sanity will thank you too.
 
ngoni615 said:
Do not suffer through 10mbs. I was on a 1Gb line then moved to 10Mbs... streaming was fine for the most part but downloading games or any big updates was a nightmare. I ended up moving to 100/100 because the 10/10 was driving me nuts. go for atleast 50/50. you will thank me later. Your sanity will thank you too.
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Really depends on what the OP is used to.

If you're coming from a 4Mbps wireless service 10Mbps will feel snappy. It really depends on what they got or are getting from RAIN at the moment.
 
Fazebheki675 said:
Hello everyone,hope everyone is well.I am a gamer and I asked my father to get fibre cuz the wifi service is slow.We are currently using Rain and it is very slow so I told my dad to switch to fibre.He ordered 10mbps down and 5mbps up from supersonic and it hasn't arrived yet.i just wanted to ask if 10 mbps is fast and what Ping u play on with 10mbps
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To answer your question, you need to understand bandwidth vs latency.

Think of it as a road. Bandwidth is the number of lanes on a road and latency is the speed limit.

The more lanes (bandwidth) you have, the more traffic you can handle (ie you play a game, plus your sibling streams netflix, plus your parents are on facebook, etc). The lower the latency, the faster that traffic can travel (between your home connection and whatever server you are connecting too).

10mbps (your bandwidth) is more than enough for gaming. Fibre's latency (in theory and in my experience) is MUCH lower than LTE/4G/whatever. So technically you should be able to game just fine on it. But if you want to game and someone wants to stream HD (720p/1080p/1440p) Netflix/YouTube and other people are browsing online all at the same time, your lanes (bandwidth) might get congested with too much traffic. And when you have too much traffic, your latency (speed) will be affected. Just think of rush hour traffic on a highway. Usually cars are flying down the highway at 120km/h until rush hour when traffic comes to a standstill as the highway becomes to congested.

Now I am now IT pro, but that is my understanding of it all. Hope it helps.

Edit: I have a 10/10 connection and I game just fine on it. But I also live alone so I do not have to share my connection with other people. But yes, downloading COD Warzone updates are a pain. 10mbps means you can download at 1.25 megabytes a second. So you can do the math of how long it will take downloading a 20+ gigabyte update at that speed. Again, going back to my highway analogy, you are trying to squeeze 20 gig of traffic down a road that can only handle 1.25 megabyte of traffic every second.
 
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