Broadband Advice Technology

[Crabtree]

Sick and tired of piss poor service from Virgin Media but they are the fastest.

Looking at alternatives, but they're all slower. Sky offer 59Mb speeds with independent sites saying the real average speed is 41.

Is that enough for up to two people working from home during the day with Teams video calls and suchlike, and outside of work hours, streaming films and TV on services like Netflix on up to two TVs at a time? Obviously the usual use on laptops on mobile devices? And the doorbell and a few other ancillary devices use the WiFi as well

 

[Wanted]

I'm no techie but that's the speeds I've got with Sky Broadband and it's fine. Can do conference calls, stream multiple TVs/phones/tablets and download simultaneously etc

 

[David76]

Yeah, regular broadband is easily fast enough to cope with all that stuff without breaking a sweat.

You can stream 4K films on anything above about 30Mb too. So 2 streams of FHD 1080 wouldn't need more than about 20Mb.

Only time superfast really matters imo, is downloading massive files in seconds. Like 80GB UHD movies.

You're limit is more likely to be poor wifi quality than the actual link speed.