MrSquished
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- Jan 14, 2013
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We do and use a lot of bandwidth. Five 65" TVs, 1 Projector w/ 120" screen, Apple TV, nVidia Shield Pro, Roku on everything else. 5 Laptops, 5 PCs, one Server with VM (VPN) for downloading. I still work from home in video production (4k) so there's a lot of uploading and downloading of assets, media files, audio tracks, and such. 3 PS5, 3 Xbox Series X, 2 Nintendo Switches, Steam, Gamepass and such on the PCs. Game downloads and updates that are sometimes 50-100+ GB.
This doesn't include the guest network for when family, friends and kid's friends come over. Which is quite often.
The last time I looked in pFsense, I think I have approximately 68 devices on all VLANs across the entire network.
So 1GB U/D for only $59 a month bundled with our ATT Wireless w/ 4 phones on an Unlimited Elite Plan w/ my company discount is a deal. I pay $238 a month that includes the extra $10 off each for auto-pay and paperless billing. Free HBOMax is nice as well.
It can take everything we throw at it and I'd rather have some extra room rather than completely saturate the network.
Yes that's a big household, plus lots of huge files in video production is the kind of work I mentioned that kind of bandwidth would be great for. Video editing is the kind of work that is perfect for 1 gigabit.
As far as devices go, one person might have 7 devices, but they are probably using 1 to 2 at once.