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I have to wonder where you live if you had no input latency.

It seems to me that statements like that are reserved for people who live relatively near a datacenter or have extremely high internet speeds, or sometimes both.

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I live in Finland, I don't think we are a priority country when it comes to Google's datacenters. We have geniunely unlimited data caps though which helps for sure.

I've been playing on wifi with a 100/10 Mbps connection. There's sometimes these lagspikes if I play in browser, but the general input latency has never been something I've noticed.

I'm a casual gamer at most, and maybe I'm not noticing it as much as some CSGO-pro would.

Bandwidth, data cap and latency are orthogonal to each other

There is a large Google datacenter in Finland.

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/hamina/

The latency issue seems to be a bit of a myth; every discussion of Stadia is filled with people who assume it's a problem, and multiple Stadia users saying they've never encountered it.

Selection bias, not myth.

Right. I would never even bother trying Stadia because my internet connection does not pass the minimum requirements. And because I'm in Canada, buying internet that would be fast enough would be pretty expensive.

So I have no idea what the input lag would be, but I can't imagine it would be any good.

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