Can someone tell me if I have the speeds to host a LAN Party

DexterousG

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We will more than likely be playing games like Csgo, H1z1 kotk, Overwatch, Minecraft (possibly), Dota 2, League of Legends and other games possibly. I have a download speed of 22 Mbps and a upload speed of 1.9 Mbps, there will be 5 people minimum, will we experience terrible lag if I am using a switch?
 
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My guess is it will not be enough. Even if you limit the machine to only game play I do not think you have enough upload bandwidth.

Many games want about 500kbps-1mbps both UP and DOWN for each client. You could run the resource monitor and try to see how much traffic it is sending and receiving. You may have to do the calculations your self to convert the BYTES to bits since the rates by process are displayed in bytes/sec.


If you mean a game that has its own local server then your internet speed does not matter much but most the games you list I think are only run on internet based servers.
My guess is it will not be enough. Even if you limit the machine to only game play I do not think you have enough upload bandwidth.

Many games want about 500kbps-1mbps both UP and DOWN for each client. You could run the resource monitor and try to see how much traffic it is sending and receiving. You may have to do the calculations your self to convert the BYTES to bits since the rates by process are displayed in bytes/sec.


If you mean a game that has its own local server then your internet speed does not matter much but most the games you list I think are only run on internet based servers.
 
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DexterousG

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We're just gonna follow through with it and see how it goes.