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
Use a router with Cake SQM (or other good QoS) and configure it correctly, on both upload and download. In my experience, managing multiple sites, this is a life saver.
My last router made it pretty easy to throttle the connections to specific IP addresses. I made it so the kids and TV received lower priority than my work computer, and all was well.
OP this is the key. 70 Mb is probably ok. That’s what we have (4 people, 5 when my MIL’s here), and it’s typically plenty. Very rarely do we saturate bandwidth beyond bursting let alone have multiple people simultaneously trying to saturate bandwidth. However, all it takes is one beefy download or upload, and everyone else is screwed. Keeping everyone happy during those times, especially the gamers, requires not just QoS but QoS that can help with both bandwidth and bufferbloat. It’s possible to achieve with highly configurable QoS, but Cake is easy and effective.
This really is the answer. I host a 20 person lan party on a 100/100 circuit and even got by with a 14/2 circuit the year before that. QoS is the key to prioritizing traffic and making this work.
I leverage OpnSense but probably more consumer friendly options available.