Proper internet speed for a household with two people?

[owall]

I’m looking for advice on what Internet speed to get for a household with two people. I think I’m going to go at AT&T home Internet, but I am unsure what option to go with. There is a 300, 500, and 1000mbps option. Eventually we plan on getting smart home gadgets, but most of the time it will be just us at home using the internet streaming occasionally and gaming here and there. I’m guessing 300mbps is the best option, but want to be sure I’m not missing anything. Will this option support smart home functionality when we expand in the future?

[Cynric]

@owall I'm doing all that you describe on FTTC at 60d/20u , so it's all relative really. Smart home stuff doesn't consume much bandwidth at all as a lot of it uses a protocol called MQTT and the data in that protocol is very small. As there's a national roll-out to fibre you may not have so much choice depending on postcode and if it's OpenReach or CityFibre doing the cables.

I thought AT&T had left the UK, every day is a school day 😀

[CrimsonLiar]

AT&T did leave the UK, they sold all their infrastructure to Vodafone!  Me I'm on 900/100 with BT (because Vodafone at the time wanted more money for less and wouldn't budge).  But I'm only on that plan because it was only pennies more than the slower plans and came with a years work of XBox Ultra - which has been thoroughly exploited.  With multiple 4K video streams, cloud game streaming, and a ton of Smart Home stuff, I think we've only ever had a sustained download need in excess of 350mbps once, during a party over Xmas!  It's not uncommon when downloading large files that you get throttled, not by the ISP, but by the capacity of the target server.

[Cynric]

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