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?
It’s overkill. Here where I live, only businesses invest in that much. Most users are happy with 150-250mbps.
You are looking for a binary yes/no answer, but the reality is that only you can answer this question.
worth it
“worth it” is subjective…
- We don’t know how your ISP is pricing their Mbps plans
- We don’t know what your budget constraints are
- What do you consider to be cheap?
- What do you consider to be reasonably affordable?
- What do you consider to be expensive?
Would gig Internet really help that out?
This depends on whether your equipment can make use of the 900-1200 Mbps fiber in
Most devices are on WiFi and seem to get about 50mb to 100mb speed
Is this causing any problems?
I have 300Mbps Verizon FiOS in the northeastern United States. This is plenty for my needs:
- dozens to thousands of search engine queries per day; general web browsing
- constantly streaming of YouTube video
- video calls
- no gaming
- occasional TV streaming
- twelve total devices, not all concurrently used (although AdGuard Home tells me that they all make multiple DNS queries every minute)
I would say that most people over-estimate their internet bandwidth needs.
Probably not unless you all regularly stream several as in more than one for each of you, 4K videos at once.
Other than that it’s mostly whether or not you want to download things faster. Most servers won’t even give you a full gigabit down. Steam does. So if you regularly install large AAA PC games maybe it is worth it.
If you do a lot of piracy you can sometimes a saturate a gigabit connection with a well seeded torrent.
o if you regularly install large AAA PC games maybe it is worth it.
Yeah buit from the sounds of it “Most devices are on WiFi and seem to get about 50mb to 100mb speed.” It’s not going to help. Unless OP of course left out the decent devices.
I would expect they are all old if thats the speed they are getting. I am on 500 and get 520 if I can be bothered to run wired. (it’s a 15M cable so not unless I know I need it).
Necessary … No.
Worth it. Yes.
I’m impatient as hell when I want something. If that means getting it through a connection 5x faster for the same price or just a bit more I’ll take it
Speeds benefit high res videos and downloads which are constantly increasing. So the faster the better
Map your peak data consumption, that will give you an idea as to whether or not you’d benefit from a package upgrade and what would best suit your needs. Still, I live in a house with 2 PC’s, multiple phones and a chrome cast - I have a 100/50 plan and have never noticed there being an issue when most devices are sharing the network load and even on an older wifi 5 device. You’d really need to be using all devices at the same time and hitting the connection with high data content like streaming services using 4k, 1080 60fps youtube or twitch etc all at the same time.
If you’re concerned about whether or not your devices are able to make the best use of the plan you have, you might do better in the short term to look at your wifi router and LAN/WLAN setup to make sure all devices are able to get access properly, that the wifi router isn’t struggling due to lesser hardware capabilities etc.
