How much speed do Steam In-Home Streaming need 1080p 60fps

[SuperVegitoFAN]

Im in the looking for a new windows laptop, which i can use at more places and at more relaxing positions than my desktop.

IN order to do that and still game i will be using steam streaming, which worked fine on my previous laptop, sadly it broke (HP pavillion dv7, one of the bigger models with a 6770M gpu, and an i7).

ONe of the "laptops" (2 in 1 really so windows tablet with docking port essentially) ive been looking at is the Acer Aspire Swift (theres a few to choose from, but the 2 i find interesting is A, 1920 by 1200, and B, 1366 by 768 BUT has 500gb 5400rpm drive installed into the keyboard dock)

Neither of these comes with an RJ-45 connector for steam streaming.

BUT i have been looking at a usb 2.0 ethernet adapter, though it only supports up til 100mbps, as opposed to the cat6 cable im using which supports 1000mbps/1gbps (as i understand it, this isnt a field im very experienced in sadly, so if im wrong feel free to tell me where and how, always learning something)

Will this
http://www.computersalg.dk/produkt/1052543?varenummer=1052543&utm_source=EDBpriser&utm_medium=edbpriserLINK&utm_campaign=EDBpriser

Be good enough for 1080p/1920 by 1200 + 60fps streaming? I know not all of the link is readable in english but it should be understandable...

Id just like to know before making a choice, if said choice then ends up being a bad idea.

[pato]

Honestly, I'm not sure if the Intel Atom CPU will be powerfull enough, even worse with a lot of USB work, which is handled by the CPU. The device also seems to lack 5 GHz 802.11n wifi, which I recommend as a minimum if you don't want to abuse the USB.
IHS requires in 1920x1080 with medium quality and 60 fps around 30-40 Mbit/s. USB2 has a theoretical maximum of 480 Mbit/s, but could be lower with a low end CPU, but needs to be tested.

[NeuralObjection]

it said wired connection highly reccomended, So iam assuming anything 100 mbs + should be fine. And since it is in home you will actually see these rates. Cat 5 cables are ok, cat 6 is unnecessary unless you have the right set up.

[SuperVegitoFAN]

^^As far as i was aware, the host computer was the only one required for high specs. THe accessing ones specs only matter for ethernet

I recently did it with a celeron n2930 dual core, the cpu was not bottlenecking ANYTHING, it was an audio and monitor issue, it ran just as fine as said now broken laptop which has an i7, 2670QM HT QC.

Cat 6 is what i got, 7 meters... and i really didnt give much for it... And yes it is wired, i cant do steam streaming via the local router, it didnt even give me the option.

[SuperVegitoFAN]

I am now broadening my horizons, but 10/100 ethernet seems to be what i get, as audio is also an issue.

And these are at 1366 by 768 resolution, and the games may also be run at 800 by 600 due to windowed mode.

[pato]

Not sure what is wrong in your configuration. Might be that you are running the game on an Intel integrated GPU instead of a different one?
100 Mbit/s is enough for the full-hd streaming, as long as client and server got 100 Mbit/s. It should also work via the local router, as long as it actually does work in routing and not in a bridged mode (the server and client need to have an IP address in the same network range).

[SuperVegitoFAN]

No 10/100 is what the laptops im looking for has...

THey also only has 768p resolution... I dont need anything OP.

And i will be using a cat6 ethernet cable... though i have now also found out that one CAN get a usb 3.0 gigabit adapter and all the solutions im looking at has atleast one of those.

[pato]

10/100 means that the adapter can run in 10 Mbps (Mbit/s) or 100 Mbps mode, depending on the speed of the device the cable is plugged in. With 100 Mbps you should be fine.

[SuperVegitoFAN]

I was rather certain of the first line, (with gigabit being 1000) and with a cable that DOES support gigabit i know ill get the fastest that the laptop/2 in 1 pc/whatever supports... What i was worried about was is 100 enough... Which its starting to seem to be... espicially since the streaming cant go abover 1366 by 768 as that will be the max resolution of the client device it seems.

[pato]

100 Mbit/s Full Duplex is enough for 1920x1080 with 60fps streaming.

[mnail]

1920*1080*60Hz*24bit = 3Gbps. I would love some satisfactory explanation, how this could run over 100Mbps network. That would require some really heavy compression and I doubt that would run real time on some thin client (which is something I would like to do).

[pato]

There are various codecs on the market which several GPUs implement in hardware (around 1% performanace loss if enabled), like H.264 and H.265. They can massively compress the video without much of a quality loss. So 1080p60 is around 12 Mbit/s (in the case of Youtube).