Thread: Onlive- End of Consoles, and high-end gaming PCs?

Originally Posted by simonj

if you have a 5mb connection and you go for standard anyway. Then you're pretty much guaranteed no lag or anything.

How so? Lag is more likely to be caused by high latency, not a lack of bandwidth. Bandwidth only describes how much data can fit down the pipe at once; latency must be added in to figure aggregate 'speed' (throughput). Sending less information down the pipe doesn't automagically mean that there will be no or less lag; regardless of the bandwidth available to you, your video and control data still need to be received within a fairly small time frame to appear as if they were real time. Having even a 100Mb connection is irrelevant if you're getting ~200ms+ latency to their servers.