I would say the device type matters, in the sense of if they only can take the 2.4GHz band. The 2.4 gets congested SO fast, and there’s often a ton of interference in your home with other non-WiFi devices, which can cause buffering even if you’re nowhere near your ISP limit. Newer devices that take the 5GHz, or even 6GHz, or better yet, hardwired, really give you a true picture of what you can do with your bandwidth.
I would agree with your analysis here that having a lot of devices in your home that can only connect to the 2.4G network (like IoT devices) can cause issues if you don’t have enough bandwidth, or you have a lot of interference in your home, or both. I would also say that if you have a lot of IoT devices in your home, you may need more bandwidth to support them all if they’re all active at the same time. Thank you for sharing this is a good consideration!
@@network-from-home For a household of 4 persons i assume a 120 mbps should be ok and gaming actually requires less then 25 from what i know. I have 500 mbps at the moment but i could get 120 mbps for half this price so i think i should try it.
So i live in a house of 7 and the house has about 4 tablets, 5 consoles, 2 computers, and 5 phones that are connected to the internet. At time the devices use vary each day. My question is " What type of internet plan should i pick?"
In this situation, you need to plan for the highest number of devices that will be streaming at the same time. If everyone in your house (7 people) is streaming something at the same time, you should get an internet plan that provides 500 Mbps. If the most amount of things being streamed at the same time in your home is half of that, you need an internet plan that provides at least 250 Mbps of bandwidth. I hope this helps!
I play raid shadow legends on my computer, stream TH-cam on my phone, watch Netflix and Amazon on my TV, and my husband watches sports on his little TV and streams TH-cam on his phone. How much internet do we need? I also was thinking about starting WOW again on my PC.
It all depends how many devices you have streaming at the same time. For each device that is streaming at the same time, account for at least 25 Mbps for each. So for example, at peak internet usage in your home, if you have 3 devices that are streaming at the same time, your internet plan should be at least 75 Mbps (but you'll probably want at least 100 Mbps for a factor of safety). I hope this helps!
I wish that was the case when downloading. Unfortunately many download servers will throttle your connection to it so it can allow many customers to download from it at once. If one person could hog all the bandwidth of a download servers, only 1 person would be able to download at a time, which would be very frustrating. I hope this helps!
Honestly I have seen internet speeds fluctuate based upon the time of day. This has to do with the other people in your area using the internet. If all your neighbors have the same ISP and everyone is using the internet at the same time, this can limit the bandwidth to your home. I hope this helps!
I would say the device type matters, in the sense of if they only can take the 2.4GHz band. The 2.4 gets congested SO fast, and there’s often a ton of interference in your home with other non-WiFi devices, which can cause buffering even if you’re nowhere near your ISP limit. Newer devices that take the 5GHz, or even 6GHz, or better yet, hardwired, really give you a true picture of what you can do with your bandwidth.
I would agree with your analysis here that having a lot of devices in your home that can only connect to the 2.4G network (like IoT devices) can cause issues if you don’t have enough bandwidth, or you have a lot of interference in your home, or both. I would also say that if you have a lot of IoT devices in your home, you may need more bandwidth to support them all if they’re all active at the same time. Thank you for sharing this is a good consideration!
@@network-from-home For a household of 4 persons i assume a 120 mbps should be ok and gaming actually requires less then 25 from what i know. I have 500 mbps at the moment but i could get 120 mbps for half this price so i think i should try it.
Audio way low, good Info!
Thank you for the feedback. I will see if I can look into that and correct the issue in future videos
So i live in a house of 7 and the house has about 4 tablets, 5 consoles, 2 computers, and 5 phones that are connected to the internet. At time the devices use vary each day. My question is " What type of internet plan should i pick?"
In this situation, you need to plan for the highest number of devices that will be streaming at the same time. If everyone in your house (7 people) is streaming something at the same time, you should get an internet plan that provides 500 Mbps. If the most amount of things being streamed at the same time in your home is half of that, you need an internet plan that provides at least 250 Mbps of bandwidth. I hope this helps!
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I play raid shadow legends on my computer, stream TH-cam on my phone, watch Netflix and Amazon on my TV, and my husband watches sports on his little TV and streams TH-cam on his phone. How much internet do we need? I also was thinking about starting WOW again on my PC.
It all depends how many devices you have streaming at the same time. For each device that is streaming at the same time, account for at least 25 Mbps for each. So for example, at peak internet usage in your home, if you have 3 devices that are streaming at the same time, your internet plan should be at least 75 Mbps (but you'll probably want at least 100 Mbps for a factor of safety). I hope this helps!
@@network-from-home ty it does help.
@@katchewy2469 Ok great! Good luck
Downloading files from internet 10Mbps. I think if someone is downloading too often and large files then it should be as much as you can get.
I wish that was the case when downloading. Unfortunately many download servers will throttle your connection to it so it can allow many customers to download from it at once. If one person could hog all the bandwidth of a download servers, only 1 person would be able to download at a time, which would be very frustrating. I hope this helps!
Maybe you know the reason, my Internet gets pretty bad at noon/night (my game gets really laggy) even thought no one uses it expect me
Honestly I have seen internet speeds fluctuate based upon the time of day. This has to do with the other people in your area using the internet. If all your neighbors have the same ISP and everyone is using the internet at the same time, this can limit the bandwidth to your home. I hope this helps!
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