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
70Mbps fiber is prob fine.
The problem is going to be something like video calls or VPN if anyone starts a large file download, like a game install or something if they don’t throttle it. It will eat up most of that and cause issues with anything that is sensitive to download speed/latency. It will still prob work, but you will notice quality drops. Video streaming is likely fine, 10-15Mbps per person is doing ok for that typically.
70Mbps on a non-fiber line, it will suck badly. The upload is likely pretty low, and using most of your upload will crash the download speeds and kill VPN connections and video calls. Not to mention 70Mbps on non-fiber is advertised ‘max’ speed, actual ‘guaranteed’ speeds could be half or lower and when I worked for an ISP there was zero guarantee’s on latency or occasional packet loss which will murder VOIP, voice calls, and VPN connections.