I currently have 300mb fiber and was wondering if 1gig would be worth it. We have 4 PC/laptops, 1 tablet, 4 phones, and about 10 other Internet connected devices. Most devices are on WiFi and seem to get about 50mb to 100mb speed. Would gig Internet really help that out?
I normally say 100Mbps per person. That is enough speed to stream around 4, 4K Netflix streams at once. Or 1 stream and browsing the web and other things at once.
If there are 2 people living there, then 200Mbps. Normally you’d have to go with a 300Mbps plan. Which is more than fast enough for most people.
My Brother and his wife life on top of a mountain basically, and have wireless Internet, and get around 100Mbps. Yet that is enough speed for the both of them to work at home and be on their computers.
If most of your bandwidth is being wasted, why have it? Now there can be reasons why you need more speed. If you do a lot of Peer to Peer and want to transfer a whole lot of large files all the time. Faster speed, won’t take as long as slower speed. Will it make it worth it for you? I doubt it.
All your devices don’t need 50-100Mbps non-stop. They grab a batch of packets and then stop. While some other device is grabbing some packets and then stopping. While other devices aren’t doing anything on the internet.
If you’re doing a lot of waiting around for something to happen on your devices because you’re using so much data, then yes, you need more speed.