Member of a large, device-heavy household? The more devices and users, the more bandwidth you need, so choose a speed plan up to 40 Mbps or 100 Mbps to accommodate everyone. Live on your own? Anything from 10 Mbps on up will do, though 20 Mbps or more will give you the bandwidth to game, stream, and run several devices (like your phone, your smart TV, and your laptop) at the same time. Most households can access the basic speed necessary to stream movies (5 Mbps), but in some neighborhoods, accessible speeds can climb to 100 Mbps or even up to 940 Mbps in areas with fiber-optic internet.Ī higher speed is objectively a better speed, but what counts as a good internet speed for you? The answer is a little more subjective and depends on both your household size and what you do on the internet. In the intervening decades, our expectations for what constitutes a “good” internet speed have changed. Most households could only access between 40 and 50 Kbps until broadband internet changed the game by introducing speeds up to 1.5 Mbps, or megabits per second, the equivalent of 1500 Kbps. Remember when getting online meant getting off the phone? Back then, a “good” internet speed meant a less-than-lightning-fast 56 Kbps, or kilobits per second, if you were lucky.
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