What speed do you need a home Internet actually

In Russia, a very good and, no less importantly, affordable home based internet. Seriously! In the villages, and very deep province case, of course, is worse, but take anyone, even a small city in the European part of the country and see fares. For 300-400 rubles a month can be spent in the apartment Internet speeds in the region of 25-50 megabits per second, and for any shares and 100 megabits.

For comparison: in the "civilized" countries, fast internet (and the home and mobile) cost much more expensive. And yet there still lives the concept of "monthly limit of data." We have the only remaining mobile operators.

However, the low price - that's no reason to pay for what you do not use. Even a hundred rubles savings warms purse, and therefore the rate at home internet should be chosen on the basis of real needs for speed. Let's see how many megabits per second required in different situations, and start with the basic concepts.

Megabits, megabytes, and the actual speed

The data size is usually measured in bytes. For example, HD-film weighs from 700 megabytes (megov) to 1.4 GB (giga) and Full HD - from 4 to 14 gigabytes.

The data transfer rate to be specified in bits (not bytes!) per second, and sometimes it causes confusion.

Byte ≠ bits.

1 byte = 8 bits.

1 megabyte = 8 megabits.

1 megabyte per second = 8 megabits per second.

If the user can not distinguish between bytes and bits, you can easily confuse them or take in one and the same. In this case, it will calculate the approximate time of downloading the HD-movies via torrent like this:

1. The film weighs 1 400 "megs".
2. Speed ​​Internet 30 "megs" in the second.
3. Movie download of 1 400/30 = 46.6 seconds.

In fact, the Internet speed is 30 megabits per second = 3.75 megabyte per second. Accordingly, 1,400 megabytes need not divide by 30, and 3.75. In this case, download time will be 1 400 / 3.75 = 373 seconds.

In practice, the rate will be even lower, because ISPs indicate the speed of "up", that is the maximum possible, and not working. In addition, the contribution made by interference, especially during transmission over Wi-Fi, network load, as well as limitations and features of the user equipment and the service provider equipment. Check your speed, you can use special servicesAnd increase it - with the help of these councils.

Often the neck becomes a resource from which you make a swing. For example, the speed of your Internet - 100 megabits per second, and the site gives data rate of 10 megabits per second. In this case, download will occur at a rate of no more than 10 megabits per second, and there's nothing you can do.

What speed Internet need to actually

It is obvious that the table above is self-explanatory.

Questions and answers

What if the Internet is used on two or more devices?

Let's say you're watching streaming Full HD video on the smart TV, the wife of a laptop with HD-TV to surf on YouTube, and a child that is looking from a smartphone or tablet, too, in HD-quality. Does this mean that the figures in the table need to summarize?

Yes, that's right. In this case, you will need about 20 megabits per second.

Why on different sites are different requirements for video viewing rate of the same resolution?

There is such a thing as the bit rate - the amount of information that is encoded on the image at a time, and accordingly, the conditional indicator of quality of picture and sound. The higher the bit rate, so as a rule, better image. That is why on a torrent you can find versions of the same movie with the same resolution, but different sizes.

In addition, there are ultra-smooth video at 60 frames per second. They weigh more and require a high-speed Internet.

Is it true that online games are so undemanding to the speed of the Internet?

Yes, the majority of toys such as CS, Dota 2, WoT, WoW and even GTA 5 is more than enough just one megabit per second multiplayer, but in this case it becomes crucial ping - the time during which the signal goes from you to the game server and back. The lower the ping, the lower the latency in game.

Unfortunately, even in advance to find out the approximate ping a specific game by a particular provider is impossible, because its value is not constant and depends on many factors.

Why during the video call picture and sound from the interlocutors to me it goes normally, but from me to them - no?

In this case, it becomes important not only part, but the outgoing speed of the Internet. Providers often do not indicate an outgoing bandwidth in the rate, but you can check it yourself with the help of the same Speedtest.net.

To broadcast via webcam quite outgoing speed of 1 megabit per second. In the case of HD-chambers (and more Full HD) to an outgoing rate requirements increase.

Why do Internet providers rate rates start at 20-30 and more megabits per second?

Because the higher the rate, the more money you can take with you. Providers could keep rates "from the past" at a speed of 2-10 megabits per second and lower their cost 50-100 rubles, but why? Much more profitable to increase the minimum speed and price.