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Going from 500mbps -> 70mbps with a family of 6, how feasible is this? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by KaffY-@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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As the title states.

Both myself and my parter are avid gamers.

All 4 kids are also gamers, but watch Netflix etc. too and with our current connection, all is fine.

Our main concern is that we both are remote workers and work from home, anything that throttled our internet connection would become unsustainable to us.

Some sites say that 70mbps is pushing it, but should be okay, others say it's completely untangible

Any advice is greatly appreciated

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[–] SentientSquirrel@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If I understood right, you're downgrading your connection from 500 to 70Mbps, and the question is whether this will be enough for six people?

I'd say it depends on to what degree all six of you will be doing bandwith intensive things at the same time.

For example, Netflix recommends minimum 15Mpbs for a 4k stream, so if all six of you will be doing that on separate screens at the same time, you'll be about 20Mpbs short. But if everyone is on 1080 screens you'll be fine as the requirement is 5Mpbs per stream.

Remote work doesn't necessarily require a lot of bandwidth, although it depends on what you actually do for work. MS Teams for example only requires about 2Mpbs for group video calls.

Most gaming also doesn't require a lot of bandwidth, but of course downloading games and their updates does.

Will it work? Yes I think so, though you may encounter times when it gets laggy.

[–] gadget-freak@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No downloading during business hours 😁

[–] morosis1982@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe set up a small server on the network that can act as a cache, like steam cache for example.

[–] WingedGeek@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Caching proxy server.

[–] EvilDan69@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah and turn off cloud connected home video cameras. Video upload is horrible at that connection speed with 6 users.

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