For three to five people in a house who want to stream, game, or make video calls on three or more devices, we recommend 100–300Mbps.
People like AT&T’s cheapest fiber plan: AT&T Fiber Internet 300 at $55 per month. It comes with unlimited data, no contracts, and 300Mbps for downloading and uploading. Lauren Hannula uses the 300 Fiber plan and states, “I love my AT&T fiber more than someone should love a utility.”
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We recommend the 300Mbps plan as the sweet spot for a mid-sized family.
The average U.S. household has more than 17 connected devices, including fitness equipment, digital personal assistants, gaming consoles, thermostats, security cameras, smart watches, and the like). But GIG plans are overkill. Even with that many devices, 300Mbps can get the job done nicely.
Do you need AT&T’s GIG plans that are 57x and 134x faster than cable internet?
Respectfully, no.
There are cases where a GIG plan could be a good idea— like if you live in a big household and share Wi-Fi with a bunch of other people, if you're into content creation and livestreaming, or if you have a nice VR gaming setup in your house.
Here’s what you can do with different internet speeds:
To back up its internet plan speeds, AT&T has an interesting new 2025 guarantee that offers customers a full-day credit for a qualifying outage of 20 minutes. Use your state, service, and zip code to see if there’s an outage at your address.
No fiber available? Internet Air (AT&T’s 5G home internet service) may be a good 5G internet option if there’s coverage at your address. The wireless service’s reliability and strength depends on the 5G network in your area, and other factors like weather and network congestion can disrupt signals. But Internet Air offers download speeds between 90Mbps and 300Mbps, and you can get the same internet deals with AT&T Internet Air that you do with AT&T Fiber. So don’t worry, you can definitely stream your favorite Netflix show (life priorities, right?).
You can do all the things. Seriously, you can do almost anything online with 2,000Mbps speeds. That amount of bandwidth gives you the ability to stream movies and TV in 4K on numerous Wi-Fi devices, host livestreams, do VR gaming, and support many other heavy-duty tasks without any concerns of slowdowns or lag.
More specifically, a 2,000Mbps internet connection gives you the power to:
- Connect 12 to 20 users and their devices to big activities simultaneously.
- Access cloud services and learning platforms across multiple devices.
- Stream HD, 4K or 8K content across multiple devices or users.
- Play games on console, mobile, and PC, including live streaming over Twitch. You could download a 10GB file in 40 seconds vs. a 100Mbps internet connection that would take the same file about 13 minutes to download.
- Download large files much faster.
Working from home with a team of more than ten people would be a breeze with 2000Mbps. You would have internet fast enough for a small business as it supports 12 to 20 users on multiple devices. For reference, Disney+ states that you only need 25Mbps to stream your favorite show or video in 4K. By that definition, a group of 12 people could stream 4K content on their own individual device with no problem.
Bottom line: If you run a business, rely on large data sets, download and upload large files all day, or play new modern video games that require massive speed to download and play, then 2,000Mbps is probably for you.