Setup of a system in Spain

[MS2857]

Hi all
Firstly Happy New Year to you all.
What is the min speed broadband I need to run my Sat box? As I want to set up a box in my place in Spain and just need to know what speed to have installed at my place.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[healyj40]

Hello, I'm running @ 10Mb with a latency of under 40ms without issues

 

[benijofar]

I know of users on the Costa Blanca running at 3mb download and without issue.
The quality of the system is dependant on the ping speed not the download capacity.

 

[MS2857]

healyj40
Can you please explain what is the latency?????

benijfar
Is the ping speed the upload speed. Is that current?

Thanks to both of you, as you can guess I am new to all this.

 

[mrtweaks]

healyj40
Can you please explain what is the latency?????

benijfar
Is the ping speed the upload speed. Is that current?

Thanks to both of you, as you can guess I am new to all this.

Latency and ping are one of the same thing. It is the time it takes to get from A to B and back to A. You could have a fantasitic connection speed but it could take longer for all the packets to get to you. It could be the data is not comming though clean or the server is busier than normal and it goes on.
I can play a game online and have a ping of 100 but if I check my speed from my pc it will shows 48/72 mb ping 30ms depending what else my network is doing and what server?
Hope this helps?