Is wifi dependent on high mbps?

[Simon Bags]

Afternoon. I'm going it alone with my first property soon and I'm investigating internet providers & cost.

If all I want, not being a gamer, streamer, is just decent wifi so I can use laptop, mobile phone and get Freely on the tv and possibly a Firestick, do I need to worry about a high number mbps broadband package, or can I go for the cheapest?

Sorry about the stupid question.

Simon.

[Deviation]

Which options do you have, as the answer is “it depends”.


It isn’t the entire picture, but too few “Mbps” will make your broadband feel slow.


For most people, anything between 50 and 100 is ample.

[Davie]

I'm still on an aging copper line, albeit fibre to the cabinet... and I get at best, 68mbps and it's fine for the usage you mention.

[Murph7355]

No, not really.

But it depends what you mean by "higher" and as noted above, what's available and at what cost?

[119]

Most fibre connections are cheapish these days.

I think sky are offering 150mbps for around £25/month which should be plenty for your needs.


Having said that, u-switch is a good place to start.

[Bluevanman]

You don't necessarily get the speeds you think you are.UPTO is what they usually say so a 50mbps service is up to 50mbps.....but if you do get 50mbps that's plenty for 1 person......you didn't say how many people would be using it at any 1 time because that matters.
Also WiFi is usually slower than an ethernet connection

[RotorRambler]

900mbps available @ £22 a month here (via city fibre)
Just check on comparison sites.
You’ll probably find that full fibre providers are cheaper/faster/better than the old copper lines, if they cover your house.

[Zad]

I'm on 30Mb/s here at the moment, over copper. Probably shortly to be converted to fibre. Never seem to get buffering when 2 of us stream HD. The biggest problem can be contention. That is to say, even if you have 8Gbit/s download, if lots of other people in the street/exchange are big bandwidth users, then that might not leave much for you. Similarly, if the ISP doesn't have enough bandwidth (but that is quite rare now) then it may feel quite laggy.