Having tried Stadia on various devices phones, laptop, TV, and ChromeCast Ultra I always got the impression for what ever reason the games streamed via ChromeCast just looked 'better' on the TV than any other device, however the ChromeCast played badly with my TalkTalk Router and only worked well with ethernet. Today I managed to setup a cheapo Mesh WiFi setup for the house and the data stream does suggest the the ChromeCast pulls far more data than my laptop when streaming at the same 1080p resolution for the same game (F1 2020).
With the ChromeCast ultra running on the mesh network, it was consistently over 35Mbps pulled with occasions hitting nearly 50Mbps.
With my laptop peak was under 30Mbps, with average figures of around 20-25Mbps. I than checked the WiFi speed on the laptop to make sure that wasn't a bottleneck, and it wasn't, with speeds of over 60Mbps on my mesh setup.
So Google may say Stadia works at 10Mbps, but if even if you don't want 4K/5.1 surround sound, with a Chromecast you need well over 30Mbps to have an enjoyable experience, which might explain why Stadia doesn't work well for some people. And Stadia work very well with a mesh Wifi seup, even a cheapo one (£110 for 3 nodes) .
With the ChromeCast ultra running on the mesh network, it was consistently over 35Mbps pulled with occasions hitting nearly 50Mbps.
With my laptop peak was under 30Mbps, with average figures of around 20-25Mbps. I than checked the WiFi speed on the laptop to make sure that wasn't a bottleneck, and it wasn't, with speeds of over 60Mbps on my mesh setup.
So Google may say Stadia works at 10Mbps, but if even if you don't want 4K/5.1 surround sound, with a Chromecast you need well over 30Mbps to have an enjoyable experience, which might explain why Stadia doesn't work well for some people. And Stadia work very well with a mesh Wifi seup, even a cheapo one (£110 for 3 nodes) .