there are 2 people in my home. 2 iphones and 2 laptops. 1 roku tv with netflix, hulu, disney etc, usually only streams 5pm - 11pm. 1 ipad streaming hulu 7am - 5pm. I work from home on a remote connection 7am - 4pm. simpli safe is always connected. possibly a couple other wifi/bluetooth devices around the house that I can't think of. we do not game any more than candy crush on 1 of the iphones. we do not use video calling. we stream HD, not 4K. we have a 30 mbps plan and it has never buffered or seemed slow. 30 mbps works flawlessly for this connected, 2 person home.
I have a 20 mbps plan and I use Netflix at 4k quality. I play Xbox without issues. I stream live while gaming. Family is on their devices and no issues. SoooO I guess I'm lucky. Laptops, smart phones and smart TV as well as consoles are running all day and no issues at 20 mbps...
Thank you for this! Question: where do Zoom calling fall under the task category is it Video streaming? Also does 30mpbs mean you will have a higher chance of losing connection as oppose to a 200 mbps plan?
Your total assumes you’re using all the items in your list at the same time right? Which wouldn’t happen. Or do you have factor in all because your package is not unlimited in terms of total data used in a day? If unlimited data package then you’d only to factor in the highest use item rather than adding all, right?
at the moment my 100mbs plan is fast enough streaming 4k movies is no problem and my avg download speed is 12.6 megabytes per second i have no issues with it 🤘
My cousin and I use shared WiFi. My brother got 7 Smartphones and 1 Laptop (Gaming-1, RU-vid/Facebook/Tiktok etc=8 and Internet surfing by 2 people). I got 7 devices in total with a dekstop( Mostly, I do internet browsing , hd Streaming on youtube, use faceboo, other devices in my home use youtube at low quality because it sucks) However, We are using , 10Mbps bandwidth , lol! Ganna upgrade this month
Your math is flawed... First, you likely aren't doing all these things at the same time. Like, unless you are a master multitasker, you aren't browsing on your laptop, watching netflix on TV, listening to spotify on another device, live streaming on facebook on your phone, skyping on a tablet, and talking to Alexa, all at the same time, while your room mate does the same. So, you'd need to figure out what activities you and your room mate are doing all at the same time, and add those things up. You could presumably be both watching separate video streams, scrolling through facebook, while the other is on a video call. So having like 20-30Mbps probably isn't a bad idea, to have a little room, especially if you ever intend to have a guest over. It just didn't make sense to add up all the things you do.
@@mesayingthings7063 except I'm literally commenting on her own example she gives after saying that. She simply added up everything she might do in a day, and multiplied it by 2 for her and her roommate. If you notice, I said browsing the web, video streaming, audio streaming, live streaming, video calling, and using Alexa. Those are the things she has in her own little table. She could probably get away with 20-25mbps to support her and her roommate. That's all I was saying.
It is about having a little extra so that when background data is used you still have enough. You do not want your Netflix to buffer because your iPhone decided to sync with iCloud. Bandwidth is dirt cheap these days. Get more than what you think you really need.
I have 75/75 on fios fiber and designed a MoCA 2.5 throughout my house 🏡. Never an issue. Verizon doesn’t even offer my plan and will not allow me to change my speed without getting rid of all my channels.
I live towards what’s considered the country and there’s no plans that are over like 10 but when I search it up it says there’s so many great options then we contact the providers and they say that they don’t provide that out where I’m at so the fastest thing I can get is 10 and if I run cables through my house 20
I think that symetric speeds, are good for isp's, ordinary people don't use them that much. Big upload is good for RU-vidrs ... When just watching videos you need download speeds, upload is aslo important when in same network watching videos many people, or using internet manh people. I make a test, and i have 40 mbps download symetric, on my cottage, but when i watching videos on RU-vid, my phone use 40 mbps download, but only about 1 mbps upload.
Depends on the use case. If you work from home and have a lot of data that needs to transferred to and from your computer, it does help having a symmetrical connection.
Thank you for this video. I'm in rural GA and I got a letter in the mail that Fiber optic internet is coming soon, spring. And it'll be 50$ for 100mbps. I figured that be enough because I just mainly use one roku ultra box and rarely use the one in the bedroom because usually the antenna is used for white noise lol. There a 1 gig and 2 gig option. I thought that's over kill also... The one gig is 80 and the 2 gig is 100$. Should I get a gig or stay at a hundred? THX =)
Thank you for your help. I think it helped, but, why would you need 32Mbps if you and the roommate won’t really be doing all those amount of task at the same time? It’s a serious questions. I’m trying to figure out the logic so I can get my own plan.
Apparently she and her roommate like to both videoconference people while listening to music and streaming HD video, while also browsing the net and talking to Alexa all at the same time.
@@kuhris It is about having a little extra so that when background data is used you still have enough. You do not want your Netflix to buffer because your iPhone decided to sync with iCloud. Bandwidth is dirt cheap these days. Get more than what you think you really need.
I’m not sure my speed I need for work would that be more then 50? My work is like the cable has to go into the box and line not WiFi but I need to pick a plan
My dad pays for 1gb. We have bluetooth cameras but we still have insane speed. Literally, my cousins say my internet sucks when one of my cousins has 50 Mbps download speed next to the ROUTER. My other cousin has a wifi booster. It’s funny because my internet has the fastest mbps download and upload speed. I watch videos outside of the house in my patio and get 200-900 mbps upload/download speed. I live in a suburban area (Hampton, NH.) And they live IN A TOWN THAT LOOKS LIKE A CITY. (Reading, MA.)
150 mbps is fast enough for my movie streaming at 4k. We had a old router that produced 35 mbps and then we upgraded our router our speed dramatically increased. Got the best router walmart had.
Why always add it together? You can in most cases not watch HD TV browse the internet, social media, do emails and and and at once. It will be some but defnitely not everything at once.
Video editing doesn't use internet. 4K uploading does on the other hand. As I am more familiar with streaming, 4K streaming uses at least 25Mbps. 4K uploading doesn't have a minimum speed though, but I'd recommend 100Mbps Upload Speed.
I need at least 100mbits, i have 15mbps, because my internet provider said that the VDSL is not available yet. When i need to download the updates from the video games, it takes hours... :( .
So cricket wireless has the core unlimited data plan for 8.5 mbps and the more unlimited data plan for 1.5 mbps which one faster I’m so confused and don’t know if the core fast or slower
Wrong so wrong you don’t need that much I’d recommend 20mbps or even 15mbps. If you are just one person streaming on one device at a time you can go lower and save more. 15mbps is still fast enough to do 4K
just did speed test 7d/6u mbps verizon , boost mobile 20d/1u mbps 7d/0.2u t-mobile home internet. im between 3 local citys and under served. combined with speedify app on pc i get 40down and 7up but pay 213 usd is pricey but satlights only other option ie hughesnet 150usd for 50gigs data wont cut it when i hit 253gigs last month and 80 gigs this month(didnt download games this month)....just hope that starlink eventually comes to usa and can save money/get better speeds
Seems 50mbps is th3 safe option for me. Gaming (not much online so maybe can even disregard this but just to be safe) 4K HD RU-vid Liv3 Stream Watcher Thats really it. No music streaming. No vid3o calls.
Online gaming isn't going to use much internet, offline gaming is fine without an internet connection. Everything else I'd say at least 50Mbps. Personally I'd recommend that you give yourself a tad bit of headroom, so if 50Mbps is what everything calculates to the I'd state you go for at least 70Mbps. That way you avoid buffering.
But if you're just doing one thing at a time and your roommate is doing one thing at a time, the math doesn't seem to add up? Unless you're doing all of those things at once?
im too lazy to look up anything, but in my home we have 10mbps and my dad and mom want to watch netflix upstairs while my siblings are watching youtube at 1080p and i wanna game with 0-10 ping, in fortnite, well rn when no one is on the network i get like 30-40ping ms but if someone connects i instantly go up to max ping and cant play, what speeds do you recoomend, because we are planning on buying 250 through 250
@@nadinegomez8858 my patient isn’t enough to load while I’m surfing the web. With 2 phones connected, 2 nephews here gaming, surfing the web, Netflix wouldn’t load fast enough or it wouldn’t be HD for a couple of mins
I have 1200 mbps paying $105 a month for xfin it’s just for internet. They are telling me I can get 50mbps for $10 a month. I said put me in!!! Cannot believe how much money I wasted
I wish i had your patience. Anything less than 120 mbps is excruciatingly slow. At 50 it would take as long to download this youtube video as it would be to watch it.
She's incorrect claiming you need at least 30 or more if you were a streamer. I cut the cord back in 2016 and up until recently I only had 25 down which is perfectly fine and allowed me to stream 4K flawlessly. To confirm this reliable 4K streaming I accessed the statistics on Amazon's app which show the real time resolution while streaming which sustained 4K perfectly fine without any problems as well as the stats for nerds you can access on RU-vid when streaming 4k. RU-vid had no lost frames and streamed 4K resolution perfectly fine at 3840x2160p as does Amazon Prime video. Even had pretty good download speeds using bit torrent and I'm a multi-decade plex user who really really knows my download information well. Fairly fast downloads that were reliable over bettora and flawless 4K streaming is perfectly capable with 25, actually more like 20 because it wasn't quite 25 all the time. The truth is you only need around 16 down for 4K most of the time, definitely not more than 20 is needed. The reason they say 25 minimum is to cut down on tech support calls so they say 25 but the reality of what you actually need is more like 16 to 20. Just like HD video is somewhere around 3 down but they say 5. Somehow I figured she would have some of this information wrong and she did. Perhaps someday she will learn.
Can someone help me with this questions. Ok I have 300mbps right now cable. I am moving att offered 25 mbps with unlimited fiber optic. My question is that fast enough to handle my gaming and streaming needs. Can anyone confirm this cause I never had fiber optic so what is the difference between cable and fiber optic WiFi internet.
@@169Aquarius honestly, fiber is not worth for that much slow speeds. Stay with ur 300 Mbit/s connection. 25 Mbps is terrible. I mean for multiple clients.
Minecraft doesn't need much internet speed as you aren't constantly downloading data. As for Roblox you'd probably do better with higher internet speed as it is a Game Streaming website essentially as you aren't playing natively. It all depends on the users of the internet. I'd state at least 150Mbps, so I'd agree with your mother with going for 300Mbps. Though it could be expensive so bare that in mind.
Wahaha Erm 2:45 so you are saying you surf net while streaming video and audio and live stream on social and doing video calls all at the same time hence you need 32mbs lol something wrong with the assumptions here I think.
