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these days your options for high-speed internet start at just a few megabits

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per second and go all the way up to gigabit speeds or even more

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now of course the isps want you to fork over as much of your money as possible

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for a higher speed connection with vague wording about how it's good for gaming

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or multiple devices or what have you but how much should you really be paying

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for well here's the thing part of the reason

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that internet service providers offer so many access tiers is that not everyone

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needs the same sized pipe coming into their home

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you shouldn't buy a 10-seat minivan if you're single with no kids and in much

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the same way it's probably a waste to have an insanely fast internet

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connection if you live alone with one computer and a phone this means the 64

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thousand dollar question when choosing an internet plan is what are you using

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the service for and how many gadgets will be accessing it at once after that

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the process mostly becomes a matter of simple addition

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you see it turns out that predicting how much speed each common task requires is

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fairly straightforward suppose you want to stream hd video and i would assume

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you do otherwise you probably wouldn't be watching this for sites like youtube

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and netflix you'll need between a 5 and 10 megabit per second connection if you

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want your experience to be reliably smooth now of course if you want to stream 4k

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or HDR your data rates are going to be quite a bit higher most of the popular

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streaming platforms recommend anywhere from 15 to 25 megabit per second and we

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would suggest going a fair bit higher than that somewhere in the 40 to 50

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megabit range this will account for any dips in your service speed during heavy

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load times or if a Windows update is running in the background somewhere the

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thing to keep in mind though is that this is on a per video basis

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so if you wanted to stream on more than one screen you need to multiply that

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speed times the total number of videos that you foresee your household playing

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on your connection at once that way your Techquickie stream won't

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cut out because your inconsiderate roommate is trying to watch his rebooted

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90s sitcoms in 4k next we've got to consider our other

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data heavy doings besides streaming video like gaming it might surprise you

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though to know that you don't need insane speeds to have a great gaming

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experience in fact typically if you can have at least 10 megabits per second

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free on whatever device you're gaming on it'll probably be enough

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the more important consideration for gaming is going to be latency now you

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can learn more about latency up here but in short it's the delay between your

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computer or your phone requesting something from the server and the server

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sending the data back to you and vice versa and it's actually possible nay

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common to have a service that boasts high speeds but also suffers from high

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latency which can result in weird leggy behavior while you're gaming

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and the really tricky thing here is that as you pay more for a higher speed tier

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your latency may not improve at all

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so if you have several isps to choose from

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read reviews and see if there are any in your area where gamers have specifically

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recommended it for its lower latency also keep in mind that low latency is

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equally important for other real-time applications such as video chatting with

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your long distance love interest one more gaming and video chat specific

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consideration is that unlike web browsing it's important to make sure

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that you're getting a decent amount of upstream speed for these applications

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a solid 10 to megabits per second per device should be fine for high quality

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video calls and streaming to twitch in high definition now aside from

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applications the other most common reason that you might want a faster

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connection is if you are often transferring large files like game

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installers or large video files for example if you were trying to

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download a 2 Gigabyte movie that would take about 2 minutes and 40 seconds on a

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100 megabit per second connection so it's a simple matter of doing the math

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for how long it takes you to prepare a bucket of popcorn and going from there

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finally although i know the title of this episode is how much speed you need

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we should probably also mention data caps those are those nasty little limits

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that some isps slap onto your service where if you exceed a certain amount per

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month you'll be looking at consequences like throttling or extra charges

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now data caps shouldn't be too much of a concern for web browsing but you can

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quickly run up against them if you're gaming streaming or watching a ton of

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video so have a look at this chart to see how much data per hour these

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activities usually consume and then you can use some quick math to see how high

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of a cap you might need every month the bottom line is that there's no point

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over paying for either speed or data that is unless you're that person that

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likes to leave your wi-fi unsecured because you're just feeling

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really generous towards your whole neighborhood so hopefully you found this

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