Stadia: An In-Depth Look at Bandwidth Usage

Harry Martland
4 min readDec 7, 2020

I have been using Stadia for a number of months and am thoroughly enjoying it. Yes I have had one or two days where it gets a bit laggy but overall it has been a positive experience and the ease of access to games makes up for any bits of lag.

Due to me using even more streaming service I thought it was worth upgrading my home network. I ended up choosing the Ubiquity Edgerouter X and access point. This is more of a prosumer setup but I have always wanted to delve into the networking side of things. This set up also give me observability of my network and…

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Harry Martland

Principal Software Engineer at Booking.com — Transport, writing mainly about observability, reliability and building applications ‘well’