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Nah, you being on campus lol. Whenever I did speed tests from my campus, I got results like that too.

Odd, back at UT I was getting speeds like this:

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IntelliHeath

As in "Heathcliff"

Not sure about these numbers. Seems pretty meh to me for a game like Smash Bros.

Naw, from top of my head, if you are only using internet for smash (no multitasking). You might only need 5mb down and 2mb up with good ping but I could be wrong. Someone, please correct me if I'm wrong.

My thumb rule for my online gaming is more than 20mb down and 3mb up.
 

chaosblade

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Remember that when playing online ping generally matters more than your download speed. It doesn't matter if you can send 100mb/s if it takes 200ms for the data to get there. Hence why satellite connections used to be great for general web usage but worse than dial up for online gaming.

Mine kind of sucks, just tested and it was 44ms. That would probably make for annoying Smash play. That was over wifi though and I'd like to get on LAN again, and get a LAN adapter for the Wii U.
 

justchris

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Add long as your ping is 25 or less, you should have little trouble playing online regardless of your upload/download speed. It might take you longer to load into matches (and I wouldn't recommend downloading the game if your download is low), but you won't have much latency, which is key.
 

-Horizon-

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Remember that when playing online ping generally matters more than your download speed. It doesn't matter if you can send 100mb/s if it takes 200ms for the data to get there. Hence why satellite connections used to be great for general web usage but worse than dial up for online gaming.

Mine kind of sucks, just tested and it was 44ms. That would probably make for annoying Smash play.

What's the recommended? My connection at home has a ping of ~30ms.

Edit: just noticed it was mentioned a few posts above mine lol
 

georly

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Try speedof.me and see what your ping is. Speedtest is unreliable at times when it comes to that. I've found this works better most of the time.

It'll be the "Latency" number.

That one made my work internet look way worse!

16 download, 4 upload, 85ms ping vs last page's 132 Down, 10 Up, 8ms ping
 

SoldnerKei

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damn, some your internetz speed is really awesome guys, I love doing streaming and really 1.5mb of uploading speed is nothing, now I am curious if there is any other good internet provider in my state >_>

I want to stream the wii U version and play with fellow SmashGAFers the best I can, everything while I enjoy a cherry cheesecake yumi
 

chaosblade

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What's the recommended? My connection at home has a ping of ~30ms.

As low as possible. For perspective 16ms is one frame at 60 FPS, so if you're less than that you're looking really good.

2-3 frames is what you and I would be looking at. If you can feel the difference between 60 and 30 FPS it would probably feel similar. Just slightly less responsive.
 

Tenck

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This is my supposed connection. I still have perfect online matches (with the super rare ones where my opponent disconnects).
 
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