100 Mbps is fast enough to enjoy your new Smart TV. You can browse the web, stream movies in Ultra HD or 4k, download music, and game with speeds of 100 Mbps. If you’re the only one online, you’re pretty much covered for all of the above, with a note that pro-gamers need about 25 Mbps per player. As others get online in the household it can cause network congestion that slows your speed because the capacity of your Wi-Fi router is allocated among all the devices connected to Wi-Fi. With 100 Mbps of speed you should be able to stream in 4K on a couple of devices while others in the household are checking social media, playing video games or streaming music. Here are some common Smart TV tasks along with their required speeds:

• Surfing, social media, shopping: 1-5 Mbps
• Gaming: a minimum of 5 Mbps is required at the basic level but advanced pro-gamers will want as much of the 100 Mbps speed as possible. Gaming is actually more affected by latency (ping rate) than by bandwidth so look for latency below 20 m/s for the most advanced competitors while 100 m/s is ok for everyday playing.
• Streaming in HD: 25 Mbps
• Stream in 4K: 40-100 Mbps
• File downloads: A large file of 100 MB takes just 8 seconds when 100% of your 100 Mbps speed is available to you. If you have a 500 MB file you can download it 40 seconds under the same conditions.
• File Uploads: At 100 Mbps it will take nearly 2 ½ hours to upload a 100 Mbps file. Excluding fiber optic connections, upload speeds are much slower than download speeds because providers dedicate more bandwidth to downloads to meet demand. Fiber optic upload and download speeds often match. Some traditional connection plans favor upload speeds so if you routinely upload large files, it’s worth researching these.