Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is Your Internet FAST Enough?”.
These days, your options for high-speed internet start at just a few megabits per second and go all the way up to gigabit speeds or even more now, of course, the isps want you to fork over as much of your money as possible for a higher speed connection With vague wording about how it’s good for gaming or multiple devices or what have you, but how much should you really be paying for? Well, here’s the thing part of the reason that internet service providers offer so many access tiers. Is that not everyone needs the same sized pipe coming into their home? You shouldn’t buy a 10-seat minivan if you’re single, with no kids and in much the same way, it’s probably a waste to have an insanely, fast internet connection. If you live alone with one computer and a phone, this means the 64 thousand dollar question when choosing an internet plan is what are you using the service for and how many gadgets will be accessing it at once. After that, the process mostly becomes a matter of simple addition. You see, it turns out that predicting how much speed each common task requires is fairly straightforward. Suppose you want to stream hd video, and i would assume you do otherwise. You probably wouldn’t be watching this for sites like youtube and netflix you’ll need between a 5 and 10 megabit per second connection.
If you want your experience to be reliably smooth now, of course, if you want to stream 4k or hdr, your data rates are going to be quite a bit higher. Most of the popular streaming platforms recommend anywhere from 15 to 25 megabit per second, and we would suggest going a fair bit higher than that somewhere in the 40 to 50 megabit range. This will account for any dips in your service speed during heavy load times or if a windows update is running in the background somewhere. The thing to keep in mind, though, is that this is on a per video basis.
So if you wanted to stream on more than one screen, you need to multiply that speed times the total number of videos that you foresee your household playing on your connection at once. That way, your tech, quickie stream won’t cut out because your inconsiderate roommate is trying to watch his rebooted 90s sitcoms in 4k. Next, we’ve got to consider our other data heavy doings besides streaming video like gaming. It might surprise you, though, to know that you don’t need insane speeds to have a great gaming experience, in fact, typically, if you can have at least 10 megabits per second free on whatever device you’re gaming on it’ll probably be enough.
The more important consideration for gaming is going to be latency. Now you can learn more about latency up here, but in short, it’s the delay between your computer or your phone, requesting something from the server and the server sending the data back to you, and vice versa, and it’s actually possible, nay, common, to have a service that Boasts high speeds, but also suffers from high latency, which can result in weird leggy behavior, while you’re gaming, and the really tricky thing here is that, as you pay more for a higher speed tier, your latency may not improve at all. So if you have several isps to choose from read reviews and see if there are any in your area where gamers have specifically recommended it for its lower latency, also keep in mind that low latency is equally important for other real-time applications such as video chatting with Your long distance love interest, one more gaming and video chat. Specific consideration is that, unlike web browsing, it’s important to make sure that you’re getting a decent amount of upstream speed for these applications.
A solid 10 to megabits per second per device should be fine for high quality video calls and streaming to twitch in high definition. Now, aside from applications, the other most common reason that you might want a faster connection is, if you are often transferring large files like game, installers or large video files. For example, if you were trying to download a 2 gigabyte movie, that would take about 2 minutes and 40 seconds on a 100 megabit per second connection.
So it’s a simple matter of doing the math for how long it takes you to prepare a bucket of popcorn and going from there. Finally, although i know the title of this episode is how much speed you need, we should probably also mention data caps. Those are those nasty little limits that some isps slap onto your service, where, if you exceed a certain amount per month, you’ll be looking at consequences like throttling or extra charges.
Now, data caps shouldn’t be too much of a concern for web browsing, but you can quickly run up against them if you’re gaming, streaming or watching a ton of video so have a look at this chart to see how much data per hour these activities usually consume And then you can use some quick math to see how high of a cap you might need every month. The bottom line is that there’s no point over paying for either speed or data. That is unless you’re, that person that likes to leave your wi-fi, unsecured because you’re just feeling really generous towards your whole neighborhood. So hopefully you found this video helpful speaking of helpful.
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