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
Those are up-to speeds. You’ll likely get less on average. From my experience, expect as much as 20% slower speeds than advertised on most days.
I personally wouldn’t downgrade to 70Mbps. Maybe if they have an option between, that may be better if you’re trying to reduce monthly costs.
You also may run into upload speed issues as others have said, though that may not change between the two packages you mentioned. With my local ISP(s), you get the same shitty upload speeds for all packages except 1Gbps.
Your mileage may vary.