Google Stadia WiFi speed – check if your internet connection is good enough to play
GOOGLE'S upcoming Stadia game-streaming service could kill the Xbox and PS4 – but is your internet good enough to use it?
You'll need speedy WiFi to play high-quality games on Google Stadia, so we reveal how to check it your internet is up to scratch.
What is Google Stadia?
First revealed on March 19, Google Stadia promises games at quality as good or better than a top-notch current-generation console - without paying top dollar for hardware.
It does this by running the games themselves on computers that sit in Google's data centres around the world, and then streaming the video output to your screen.
Those computers are more powerful, by at least one measure, than a PS4 Pro and Xbox One X combined.
To access them you'll need to shell out £119 up front and pay £8.99-a-month for continued access to the service when it releases this November.
You can also download the app on both iOS and Android:
- iOS test –
- Android test –
SpeedTest will give you a download speed read-out in Mbps (megabits per second).
So as long as you're consistently hitting 25-30Mbps, your internet is good enough to play using Google Stadia.
Does it have any competition?
Microsoft's Project xCloud works on very similar principles but using a version of the Xbox One in data centre racks, while Amazon is also reported to be working on something very similar.
Google, Amazon and Microsoft between them provide the lion's share of cloud computing resources across the world -- anyone, including Sony or Nintendo, looking to offer a competing service at the moment would realistically have to piggyback on their services.
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