bandwidth estimate

[Fritz]

local FiOS is 200/400 or Gb.
Have 4 TVs, seldom more than 2 used at once.
4 computers. seldom more than 2 at once (backblaze & StreamYard)
no tablets.
no games.
3 Ring doorbells. No other Smarty stuff.
200/200 should be plenty, right?

[clay]

yes

[mattkime]

Fritz wrote:
200/200 should be plenty, right?

Yes, for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would need even that much.

I take that back, I have hit max speeds when uploading to google drive. I do that a couple of times a week....it doesn't really make my work any faster.

I suspect that the vast majority of people buying higher speeds barely use any of it.

[Fritz]

" I suspect that the vast majority of people buying higher speeds barely use any of it."

the sales pitch to little old ladies.

"what about when your grandkids come over with all their gaming consoles?"

"eh?"

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Estimate a 1080p HD stream takes about 6 Mbps and a 4K stream takes about 24 Mbps. Even if you were simultaneously streaming 4K to all four computers, that's only about 100 Mbps, half of your budget. The other half is WAY more than would be needed for normal computer stuff (barring the occasion SW DL).

[modelamac]

I have 10 grandkids, some with gaming consoles, and none have more than 200/200 at home. They all seem to be surviving. They leave the games at the door when they come over.

Fritz wrote:
" I suspect that the vast majority of people buying higher speeds barely use any of it."

the sales pitch to little old ladies.

"what about when your grandkids come over with all their gaming consoles?"

"eh?"

[graylocks]

i live with an adult son who games and youtubes almost every non-working hour. i think a good majority of what he does is 4K.

i watch about an hour of netflix/hulu/whatever a day. i'm not sure how much of that is 4k.

we come close to maxing out the 1TB limit on Comcast every month.

[sekker]

200 - yes

We only have more because of some odd VPN usage and a need for higher speeds for some regular video uploads due to COVID.

With that last issue resolved as of last week, I will consider dropping to 200 for my household.

[space-time]

For whet you do, 200 is plenty.

I have 1G at the office and when I pull a new docker from the cloud I wish we had 10G fiber all the way to the desktop.

[mattkime]

space-time wrote: I have 1G at the office and when I pull a new docker from the cloud I wish we had 10G fiber all the way to the desktop.

Sounds like you're pulling down some heavy images. That wasn't my experience working with docker.