Sorely Limited ISP Selection

[Charalyne Blackwood]

Just signed a lease on an affordable apartment but the ONLY wired internet service runs at a lousy 50Mbps, which I know is awful for SL. What is the actual lowest speed I can connect with?

[Solar Legion]

50 down is more than enough. Had to deal with 50 down/3 up for quite a bit thanks to circumstances ... (town/city not wanting to update/upgrade the lines to fiber plus contract issues).

[steeljane42]

As long as it's stable and there's no really big packet loss even 2-3mbps is enough. New/not cached places and avatars will rezz much slower, of course, but it'll be fine. Few years ago some building works completely destroyed a number of fiber cables in my city, so until they did clean up the mess and managed to restore it I had to use absolutely terrible mobile connection (I don't really use internet on the phone, so not paying more for the higher speed). It's around 1.5 down/0.5 up, has a packet loss (especially during evenings) and SL still was "okay" on it. Didn't even got disconnected once not counting usual TP disconnects.

[Modulated]

As was said , 50mb is a decent connection. The only real issue I can foresee is if you are sharing the connection with others who may stream heavily or also gaming heavily. If not, you should be ok IMO.

[Gwin LeShelle]

I learned it also depends on your inventory size lol back when I still was on my laptop, and our ISP had struggles or was updating stuff, we went down to like 100mb ...from 1gb that we usually have. My husband and my daughter could log in fine. Mrs. 350k inventory? Not so much lol (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠)

[ItHadToComeToThis]

50????

50 is awesome. I can access SL perfectly fine when I'm out and about by tethering to my phone at 7mbs. 50 is more than enough with a load left over.

[Chaser Zaks]

I don't see the problem with 50Mbps. Here are what my network is rated, and it's the fastest plan in my area:

Downstream Rate: 23487Kbps

Upstream Rate: 1530Kbps

[Kyrah Abattoir]

On 10/29/2022 at 1:36 AM, Charalyne Blackwood said:

Just signed a lease on an affordable apartment but the ONLY wired internet service runs at a lousy 50Mbps, which I know is awful for SL. What is the actual lowest speed I can connect with?

Far lower than this.

[Aiyumei]

On 10/29/2022 at 2:36 AM, Charalyne Blackwood said:

Just signed a lease on an affordable apartment but the ONLY wired internet service runs at a lousy 50Mbps, which I know is awful for SL. What is the actual lowest speed I can connect with?

50 mega bits is 6.25 mega bytes. It's more than enough for internet connection, as long as you have wide bandwidth and low latency you will have zero worries.

[Fortyniner Beck]

Until I moved house last year I was on a 3Mbps down and 2Mps up ( in a rural location in the UK) and used SL successfully for 10 years on that speed.  The main thing I learnt was to stay away from busy hunts as they would take forever to load so I used to monitor the green dots on the map for each location to decide when to visit..

 

[Sid Nagy]

50 Mbps is enough to enjoy your SL comfy, as others already stated. More important is what is going on at the same time when you're on SL?
If there are more persons using the same connection at the same time or if the TV signal uses the same connection, that can influence performance.
Normally 50 Mbps should be sufficient for a 1 or 2 person household AND being moderate Internet users.

I personally would cable connect the computer used for SL. That means a lot less package loss and a bit less leg in packed places.

It needs a bit of trail and error to find out what is possible at the same time (streaming music, downloading a huge file, watching Netflix, watching TV), but when only running SL, you should be more than good with 50 Mbps even on WIFI connection.

Edited October 30, 2022 by Sid Nagy
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[Jaylinbridges]

I have 50 Mbps up and down on a direct wired fiber connection.  It is massive overkill for just SL.   Only time you want faster speed is for downloading movie and sound files, and that assumes the source doesn't limit their download speeds.  

I just TPed to a marketplace sim with many thousands of high resolution textures - a heavily loaded breeder marketplace using every last resource in their 30K private region.  These are the results, for all data, TCP and UDP and local LAN.  Note the download rate peaks around 11 Mbps for a few seconds. Data collection rate is every second on this graph:

And for my Home region with a few breedables and 2 avatars, I need about 180 kbps.  Turned on the radio stream and we need about 300 kbps.  So I could get by with a 0.5 Mbps connection if needed for SL, if I never went anywhere

Edited October 30, 2022 by Jaylinbridges