our household is 3 people large. we have on occasion -but rarely- used 3 tvs (with at least one of these soon to be a 3d tv) and 2 pcs at once, with 2 of us also talking on phones independently (and these may soon be internet phones) .
at absolute theoretical max load: two people will be independently watching two separate 3d blue ray rips, one of us will be watching a blue ray rip, 2 computers will be downloading files and there will be texting and talking across 2 internet phones. altogether that's ...
20-40mbps* (plus 2 smartphones texting and receiving calls) / 300mbps on 2.4 ghz
20-60mbps** x2 + ( 333-x + x ) kbps*** / 300mbps on 5.2 ghz
plus overhead for 7 (?) simultaneous connections ... now, this is likely to be a very rare situation, but supposing this is the max, how much bandwidth do i really need?
...
a few weeks ago, i was about to purchase our first wireless router****, which at the time was to be an e4200 v1 true dual band n router.
the going price was $45 on ebay. emphasis on was. just when i was sure that i wanted that specific model, the price jumped up ... and it just kept going up and now the price for a used e4200 v1 is the same as the price for a factory refurbished e4200 v2, which is about $100 ...
so i was about to purchase an e4200 v2 when it suddenly occured to me that perhaps i'm buying more bandwidth than i need, hence this thread ...
advice please?
* a blue ray rip tends to have a bitrate of 20-40mbps
** a 3d blue ray rip tends to have a bitrate of 20-60mbps
*** i have the very cheapest cable internet ... according to speedtest.net it maxes out at 484kbps and actual transfer speeds tend to max out at around 310kbps ... unless broadband prices dramatically decrease, we have no intention of buying more internet bandwidth
**** up till now we've been swapping around portable hdds and messing with ethernet cables. yeah, i know, we're practically in the stone age.
EDIT: wellllllp, i'm an idiot. i'd forgotten about the max throughput of current routers, which puts my max usage estimation somewhere in dreamland.
a more ordinary usage pattern would be:
2 laptops browsing and dlling files , 1 tv playing a blue ray rip OR 1 laptop browsing and dlling files and 1 3dtv playing a 3d blue ray rip. internet phones may enter into the picture at some point but usage will be very low and we tend to pause our other activities when we're on the phone (other than file downloading, obviously).
that's ...
1 3d tv playing 3d blueray rips + 1 smartphone OR 2 smartphones on 2.4ghz
2 laptops browsing, dlling and listening to music from an nas on 5.2ghz
which seems a lot more modest.
at absolute theoretical max load: two people will be independently watching two separate 3d blue ray rips, one of us will be watching a blue ray rip, 2 computers will be downloading files and there will be texting and talking across 2 internet phones. altogether that's ...
20-40mbps* (plus 2 smartphones texting and receiving calls) / 300mbps on 2.4 ghz
20-60mbps** x2 + ( 333-x + x ) kbps*** / 300mbps on 5.2 ghz
plus overhead for 7 (?) simultaneous connections ... now, this is likely to be a very rare situation, but supposing this is the max, how much bandwidth do i really need?
...
a few weeks ago, i was about to purchase our first wireless router****, which at the time was to be an e4200 v1 true dual band n router.
the going price was $45 on ebay. emphasis on was. just when i was sure that i wanted that specific model, the price jumped up ... and it just kept going up and now the price for a used e4200 v1 is the same as the price for a factory refurbished e4200 v2, which is about $100 ...
so i was about to purchase an e4200 v2 when it suddenly occured to me that perhaps i'm buying more bandwidth than i need, hence this thread ...
advice please?
* a blue ray rip tends to have a bitrate of 20-40mbps
** a 3d blue ray rip tends to have a bitrate of 20-60mbps
*** i have the very cheapest cable internet ... according to speedtest.net it maxes out at 484kbps and actual transfer speeds tend to max out at around 310kbps ... unless broadband prices dramatically decrease, we have no intention of buying more internet bandwidth
**** up till now we've been swapping around portable hdds and messing with ethernet cables. yeah, i know, we're practically in the stone age.
EDIT: wellllllp, i'm an idiot. i'd forgotten about the max throughput of current routers, which puts my max usage estimation somewhere in dreamland.
a more ordinary usage pattern would be:
2 laptops browsing and dlling files , 1 tv playing a blue ray rip OR 1 laptop browsing and dlling files and 1 3dtv playing a 3d blue ray rip. internet phones may enter into the picture at some point but usage will be very low and we tend to pause our other activities when we're on the phone (other than file downloading, obviously).
that's ...
1 3d tv playing 3d blueray rips + 1 smartphone OR 2 smartphones on 2.4ghz
2 laptops browsing, dlling and listening to music from an nas on 5.2ghz
which seems a lot more modest.
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