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Is there any way I can monitor bandwidth usage in both real time and historically?
We have up to 3 people gaming and/or streaming in our house and I’m beginning to wonder if my 77meg connection is enough.
It’s a BT Home Hub and I can’t see anything in the admin options to do it.
77mbps is more than enough for that.
Gaming uses no more than 5mbps at very very most. And a single 4k stream from netflix is 25mbps.
So at 77mbps download, you've got enough for 2, maybe 3 4k streams and some online gaming.
here ya go 😉
We have up to 3 people gaming and/or streaming
Similar here - let me guess some are teenage? If so, do they lack in patience at times over this issue...?
I find it hard to explain to ours that there are many links in the chain for data to get from PC, wifi, router, cable, server, more server, then back through cable, then router, then wifi, then their PC... I find many of the issues are actually things like PC doing an update, or the fact that they want faster gaming speed while streaming an HD video on phone simultaneously therefore the 4 or 5 of us can end up with 8 devices on the go...
Yeah, a 77M connection is way more than you'll need. I'm on 15M ADSL and there can happily be three netflix streams going on whilst I work over remote SSH connections (so would notice tragic latency). Gaming doesn't tend to use a lot of data but is more sensitive to the roundtrip time, and remember that Netflix works fine on 2MBit ADSL (not 4K, but still HD).
If the games are very latency-sensitive (fast FPS, that sort of thing) then you might want to consider a new router that has QoS to prioritise those packets. I've used Ubiquiti routers before (also have awesome per-application-per-device bandwidth monitoring) and their pro-consumer Amplifi Gamers Edition router might be interesting.
We have 77mbps and it's more than enough for the boy the game, the wife to Netflix and for me to work, games, streaming music and upload/download stuff.
Don't forget Netflix downloads etc cache locally so after a few minutes the bulk of the program is downloaded and internet usage is then minimal. Gaming doesn't use huge bandwidth as others have said and the bulk of our usage is me downloading files and software.
First thing I would do is to hardwire as much stuff into the router as possible to have less reliance on wifi This has made the biggest difference to me...
Oh, and check your wifi isn't competing with the neighbours...