Why is it that if I run a speed test of my wifi it says 35Mbps but usually it doesn’t go up 30/40 Kbps??

Question

So how can a speed test pull the most amount of data from the provider but my games can not?

In: Technology

Answer 1

When you say you games only pull 30/40 Kbps – what do you mean? Is that when you’re playing an online game, or when you’re downloading the game? If that’s when you’re playing an online game – it’s because online games use very little data. All they need to do is report a small amount of information about your position and the position of everyone else a few dozen times a second. Reporting a player’s location and rotation 30 times a second I’d estimate needs about 5Kbps.