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
That is a big nope.I’m a specialist at work and support everything.
I get calls with people with less than 30 having all sorts of issues working remote, single users, no smart home devices, no file transfers happening, only person in the house.
Since Covid, we can support 1500 people remotely. We have spent on new Cisco switches, and remote appliances and enough bandwidth to support everyone. Everyone with higher speed does not have an issue.
Also don’t be someone remote also connected on wifi. This does not help VPN one bit. especially with only an ISP provided router.
If you work from home with that connection speed, your ONLY course of action is to hope you have a local desktop at work on their gigabit network that does all the work, while you manipulate it remotely, which requires the minimum amount of connection.
IT blows my mind when people go home with their laptops, and work on huge excel documents full of macros, and need access to share drives to accomplish their goals.
What could take them 10 minutes here at work will be 2.5 hours remotely. Add another VPN user at home and a bunch of kids with various streaming/gaming needs and it’ll be horrible. Trust me.