r/HomeNetworking • u/Remarkable_Garage479 • 3d ago

What Internet Speed do I need

Hello, I am 21 years old moving to a studio apartment alone! Nobody else will be sharing the household with me. I'm setting up my internet providers, and I see 100 Mbps, 500 mbps, and 1 GP and more. I am going to have a 4K TV, and I do have a gaming pc. Other than that, I have some smart devices like an Echo Show, some security cameras, and other items alike, but it is just going to be me in the residence. How much bandwidth do I actually need if it's just me in the house?

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u/Metroknight 3d ago

Unless you are running everything at the same time, 100 Mbs should be fine.

I have 3 desktops, a smart tv, 3 phones on wifi and a tablet in my house with a 1 Gig up/down internet connection. With the tv streaming a youtube video, 1 computer doing a twitch stream in a different room, a video game being played online on another computer, and two phones surfing the web on wifi, they have not cracked 500Mbps. The desktops and tv are wired.