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0 pointsbaybal26y ago0 comments

> latency is acceptable

Feedback from the other 10+ gaming SaaSes suggests everything, but this. This is pretty much a game breaker.

Every time there is a new gaming SaaS, they come challenge that. Even Google with its own backbone network can't provide 50-70ms in the best case demo room scenario, and jitter is simply impossible to mitigate on anything, but the top tier switches that are too expensive for residential ISPs.

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ac296y ago

> Even Google with its own backbone network can't provide 50-70ms in the best case demo room scenario

Eh? My ping time to google.com from my home internet connection is less than 6ms.

Or were you talking about total frame time?

papermachete6y ago

I don't think ICMP is the same as streaming workloads.

J58926y ago

Have you tried Stadia?

It's consistently sub-50ms latency (on my home network). Sure, the latency will never be acceptable for fast-paced games like Fortnite or Rocket League, but for slower games like Assassin's Creed or Destiny, it's not even noticeable.

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