Originally Posted by
KillerNetworking
Hi - I am with Rivet Networks. My kids often watch Netflix and play games at the same time, but another scenario is watching a twitch stream while playing.
The bigger picture though is what Parm mentioned - sometimes we stress our networks out intentionally by multitasking, and other times it happens without us knowing (windows updates, softpatches, etc...). Either way, our attitude is why waste expensive bandwidth by turning everything off when you game when you no longer have to? Games usually only take about 20 kilobits of data at any given point, and if you have a 100 megabit connection you are wasting over 99% of your bandwidth when you game.