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  • 150GB

    Votes: 1 5.3%
  • 500GB

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • 1GB

    Votes: 9 47.4%
  • 2GB+

    Votes: 7 36.8%

  • Total voters
    19

oxfordmark

Casual Member
Hey

I would love to know:

How many people use your network
How many devices might stream at the same time
How many devices would be constantly connected (smart plugs etc)

I have 150mb, which for now is OK as my eldest child is 5 years old.

Cheers
 
I have the 1000mbps package + static IP.

On average two people, probably only one or two devices streaming at once, usually around 20 client devices connected (including TVs/speakers/smart home etc).

However, both of us also work from home full time and I'm a software engineer so benefit from the faster upload in particular.
 
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500Mb (previously paying £35pm, now £26pm)
2 people
2 devices
~35 devices connected

Solid service and speed (been with them since September 2022, and just renewed with them)
 
500Mb (previously paying £35pm, now £26pm)
2 people
2 devices
~35 devices connected

Solid service and speed (been with them since September 2022, and just renewed with them)
Sounds similar to our setup, going to see how 150mbs holds up.
 
Am on You8000.

3-5.
Up to 7.
Loads split across 3 WiFi access points though most have really minimal bandwidth requirements.

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  • You8000 (8000 Mbps).
  • 3 people in household.
  • Up to 3 streams simultaneously.
  • Approx 40 devices connected all of the time.
 
  • 150GB
  • 500GB
  • 1GB
  • 2GB+
None of the above.

150GB = 150 Gigabytes. This is not 150 Gigabits per second, nor is it 150 Megabits per second. I am guessing you meant:

* 150Mbps
* 500Mbps
* 1Gbps
* 2Gbps+

Then you've not said what to do about values in between. What do you select if you have 80Mbps? 330Mbps? (I have the latter).

I would also observe that the number of people and number of devices don't really make any difference. What matters is what those people are doing. A single person could fill 1Gbps if they're frequently uploading and downloading VM images or games. However, a household of 6 people could be fine with 80Mbps if they just stream to a couple of HD TVs and browse on a few phones/tablets. Always-on devices like smart plugs use almost zero bandwidth.
 
Then you've not said what to do about values in between. What do you select if you have 80Mbps? 330Mbps? (I have the latter).
You probably aren't on the YouFibre/Netomnia network if you have either of these speeds.
 
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Not yet on the Netomnia network yet unfortunately, but with my answers, I hope its 'soon':

How many people use your network
5 in my family, 5 as part of a business (but only two business users at a time)
How many devices might stream at the same time
2 just on TVs, at a push 4 if the kids have tablet streaming
How many devices would be constantly connected (smart plugs etc)
Around 65 - TV boxes, cameras, laptops/tablets, smart plugs home servers etc

I'd say I have medium to heavy internet/network usage. Fingers crossed Netomnia get me connected this year!
 
2gb/2gb
Pfsense, ipv6 + 2.5gb lan home network over cat6
4 Users, gamers etc. .
 

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I've got the You8000 business package.

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Home network is comprised of two main areas - the house proper, with a UDM Pro, USW-24-POE, Unifi 6 Pro AP and USW-AGGREGATION for 10GbE distribution. The house has about two dozen clients at the minimum at all times (Quinetic smart lighting & automation, several Alexa devices, video doorbell + WiFi chimes). The entire house is wired with CAT6 for 10GbE if needed, but I haven't bothered yet as the one room where I have my gaming rig is wired with fibre back to the Comms cab. There's also 4 smart TVs, Nvidia Shields, several consoles and a handful of phones/tablets connected sporadically as well.

Then there's a fibre interconnect (4 core OM4) between house and office/home theatre room and the office "server room" holds another pair of USW-24-POE and USW-AGGREGATION, which feeds 10GbE to the 3 servers, plus one fibre run to each of the two desks, where I will eventually put mini switches to breakout into 2.5GbE. I daily drive 3 systems (2x laptops and a workstation) and the wife has a laptop and a mini pc workstation. Server room also has a few consoles for use on the home theatre setup, along with an AV receiver and another ShieldPro. The office is also wired with CAT6 and wireless access duties are carried out by a U6 Lite AP, which also handles the IoT devices for automation.

There's also a handful of external CCTV cameras, split between the house and office racks.
 
  • 1GB
  • 2 people in household.
  • Up to 2 stream simultaneously.
  • Approx 14 devices connected all of the time
The above is normal use but when the children\gchildren\ggchildren come to stay they all bring their games, phones, laptops etc etc
 
I'm on a temporary 4G service running a ZTE MF286 cat 12 router on a EE MVNO getting around 25 to 100Mbps with a 50 to 100ms ping.
Moving to a Openreach FTTP zone in a month or two so better days will come.
 
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