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CMV
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I usually get around 325 down on hardwired connection. Our laptops are older, 802.11g so upper 20's is all they can get wireless. But iPad & our phones can hit mid - upper 200's speeds on 5Ghz connection but were 175ish (if I remember correctly) with the cable company's supplied wireless router on 5Ghz so the Nighthawk is faster - or just has a better signal getting down to 1st floor. They can't use that much, but can test there....
If I'm streaming a movie or something and do a speed test on a different device, I'll still hit that device's wifi limit. The router appears capable of supplying several connections with a lot of bandwidth simultaneously. Maybe ping or upload a little worse, but nothing drastic - not halved.
No idea how fast Roku sticks can go but doubt they could suck up more than a 3 y/o laptop. Everything I've read for streaming seems to indicate 10mbps down is most you'd need for HD streaming per device (don't know about 4k, but don't have it), so going down to 100 for me should be sufficient. Absolute worst case for us would be 3 TVs streaming, 2 phones or iPads doing something light like facebook or a word game, burglar alarm, and security camera DVR all using bandwidth simultaneously. Will find out I guess since everything for 2 TVs arrives tomorrow, but I think even maxing out 100mpbs down wouldn't happen in our house. I can always go back up on the internet speed too but think I'm just paying more for a bigger # right now that is only noticeable during a speed test. I don't know if there is a way to capture it, but if there was some type meter that could show "you're using X bandwidth total" (kind of like a Kill-A-Watt does for electricity use) that would be nice - just run everything at once and see what that is.
Will learn as I go since I know very little about this stuff. As long as mrs cmv can easily find something interesting to watch or play a music channel for background sound while she's doing something around the house, we'll be happy. I'm so rarely watching a live TV broadcast I really don't care. Streaming a whole series or movies is more my thing & do that today so expect that to at least be same, probably improved from how I do it now.
If I'm streaming a movie or something and do a speed test on a different device, I'll still hit that device's wifi limit. The router appears capable of supplying several connections with a lot of bandwidth simultaneously. Maybe ping or upload a little worse, but nothing drastic - not halved.
No idea how fast Roku sticks can go but doubt they could suck up more than a 3 y/o laptop. Everything I've read for streaming seems to indicate 10mbps down is most you'd need for HD streaming per device (don't know about 4k, but don't have it), so going down to 100 for me should be sufficient. Absolute worst case for us would be 3 TVs streaming, 2 phones or iPads doing something light like facebook or a word game, burglar alarm, and security camera DVR all using bandwidth simultaneously. Will find out I guess since everything for 2 TVs arrives tomorrow, but I think even maxing out 100mpbs down wouldn't happen in our house. I can always go back up on the internet speed too but think I'm just paying more for a bigger # right now that is only noticeable during a speed test. I don't know if there is a way to capture it, but if there was some type meter that could show "you're using X bandwidth total" (kind of like a Kill-A-Watt does for electricity use) that would be nice - just run everything at once and see what that is.
Will learn as I go since I know very little about this stuff. As long as mrs cmv can easily find something interesting to watch or play a music channel for background sound while she's doing something around the house, we'll be happy. I'm so rarely watching a live TV broadcast I really don't care. Streaming a whole series or movies is more my thing & do that today so expect that to at least be same, probably improved from how I do it now.