200 megabit internet. What home Internet speed do you really need? Router Bandwidth

Russia has very good and, no less important, affordable home Internet. Seriously! In villages and very deep provinces, things are, of course, worse, but take any, even small town in the European part of the country and look at the tariffs. For 300–400 rubles a month you can bring Internet to your apartment at a speed of around 25–50 megabits per second, and with some promotion even 100 megabits.

For comparison: in “civilized” countries, fast Internet (both home and mobile) is much more expensive. And the concept of “monthly data limit” still lives there. We only have this left with mobile operators.

However, being cheap is not a reason to pay for something you don’t use. Even a hundred rubles saved warms your wallet, and therefore the tariff for your home Internet must be chosen based on your real speed needs. Let's figure out how many megabits per second are required in different situations, and let's start with the basic concepts.

Megabits, megabytes and real speeds

Data size is usually measured in bytes. For example, an HD movie weighs from 700 megabytes (megabytes) to 1.4 gigabytes (gigabytes), while a Full HD movie weighs from 4 to 14 gigabytes.

Data transfer rates are usually specified in bits (not bytes!) per second, and sometimes this causes misunderstanding.

Byte ≠ bit.

1 byte = 8 bits.

1 megabyte = 8 megabits.

1 megabyte per second = 8 megabits per second.

If the user does not distinguish between bytes and bits, he can easily confuse them or mistake them for the same thing. In this case, it will calculate the approximate time for downloading an HD movie via torrent something like this:

1. The film weighs 1,400 "megs".
2. Internet speed is 30 “megas” per second.
3. The movie will download in 1,400 / 30 = 46.6 seconds.

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

In practice, the speed will be even lower, because Internet providers indicate the speed “up to”, that is, the maximum possible, and not the working speed. In addition, interference, especially over Wi-Fi transmissions, network congestion, and limitations and characteristics of user equipment and service provider equipment also contribute. You can check your speed using, and increase it using.

Often the bottleneck becomes the resource from which you download something. For example, your Internet speed is 100 megabits per second, and the site sends data at a speed of 10 megabits per second. In this case, the download will occur at a speed of no more than 10 megabits per second, and nothing can be done about it.

What internet speed do you really need?

Obviously, the above table requires clarification.

Questions and answers

What to do if the Internet is used on two or more devices at once?

Let’s say you are watching Full HD streaming video on a smart TV, your wife is surfing YouTube on a laptop with an HD screen, and your child is watching something from a smartphone or tablet, also in HD quality. Does this mean that the numbers from the table need to be summed up?

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

Why do different sites have different speed requirements for watching videos of the same resolution?

There is such a thing as bitrate - the amount of information with which an image is encoded per unit of time, and, accordingly, a conditional indicator of the quality of picture and sound. The higher the bitrate, the better the image, as a rule. This is why on torrents you can find versions of the same movie with the same resolution, but different sizes.

Additionally, there are super-smooth 60fps videos. They weigh more and require faster internet.

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

Yes, for most games like CS, Dota 2, WoT, WoW and even GTA 5, just one megabit per second is more than enough for multiplayer, but in this case, ping becomes decisive - the time it takes for the signal to travel from you to the game server and back. The lower the ping, the lower the latency in the game.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to know in advance even the approximate ping in a specific game through a specific provider, since its value is not constant and depends on many factors.

Why during video calls does the picture and sound from my interlocutors go normally to me, but not from me to them?

In this case, not only incoming, but also outgoing Internet speed becomes important. Often, providers do not indicate the outgoing speed in the tariff at all, but you can check it yourself using the same Speedtest.net.

To broadcast via a webcam, an outgoing speed of 1 megabit per second is sufficient. In the case of HD cameras (and especially Full HD), the requirements for outgoing speed increase.

Why do internet service providers' speed tariffs start from 20–30 or more megabits per second?

Because the higher the speed, the more money I can take it from you. Providers could keep the tariffs “from the past” with a speed of 2–10 megabits per second and reduce their cost to 50–100 rubles, but why? It is much more profitable to increase the minimum speeds and prices.

Connect Internet 200 Mbit/sec - pros and cons of high-speed access

PJSC Rostelecom is constantly expanding its list of services, offering convenient tariff plans(Internet + Television), reducing the cost of Internet access and improving the quality of equipment (new Wi-Fi router s and HD TV set-top boxes)

New PJSC service Rostelecom Online - high-speed Internet 200 Mbit/sec in Moscow

Let's take a closer look at this service:

WHO NEEDS TO CONNECT THE INTERNET AT A SPEED OF 200 Mbit/sec?

Example: a large family with three children. All family members have phones, laptops or tablets, and smart watches. The family also has a main desktop computer, 1-2 printers that work via Wi-Fi, 1-3 televisions with interactive television, etc.

In this case, the standard speed of 100 Mbit/s is no longer enough to ensure uninterrupted operation of the Internet. For some users, the Internet will periodically “slow down,” especially when used simultaneously by all family members.

For subscribers who need to download large amounts of data.

Also, connecting to the Internet at 200 Mbit/sec is worth it for those subscribers whose type of professional activity needs to be downloaded regularly software large volume or work online with massive accounting programs

on our website you can get acquainted with Internet tariffs for 200 Mbit in Moscow (...)

Internet 200 Mbit/sec in Balashikha, Podolsk, Reutov and Lyubertsy

The Rostelecom company offers Internet connection at 200 Mbit/sec in the cities of Balashikha, Podolsk, Reutov and Lyubertsy.

Connection details: renting a Wi-Fi router is 10 rubles per month, the subscription fee will not exceed 650 rubles per month.

The package tariff Internet 200 Mbit/sec + Interactive TV Rostelecom is very beneficial in terms of economy and efficiency. When renting equipment for 10 rubles. The monthly subscription fee will be less than 750 rubles. per month ( …)

What to pay attention to if you want to connect to the Internet at 200 Mbit/s ?

It's obvious that high speed The Internet must be supported by equipment that provides communication and data transfer at different stages (Rostelecom provides new Wi-Fi routers for rent for high-speed Internet)

Check the parameters of your equipment presented below and feel free to connect to the Internet at 200 Mbit/s

Many routers have limited bandwidth.
With an Internet connection of 200 Mbit/s, you will need an appropriate Wi-Fi router.
Hard drives have limited read and write speeds. An SSD hard drive is desirable.
Some network cards cannot support data transfer rates of 200 Mbps. They may need to be replaced. This point is relevant for those who connect the Internet not via Wi-Fi, but via cable.
The Wi-Fi modules of some laptops may have limited Internet bandwidth. When using such a laptop as an additional device (for example, for doing homework at school), its speed will be sufficient, but if the laptop is used for work, then you need to understand that it will not be able to handle a speed of 200 MBit/s.

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Few doubt that sooner or later (and rather sooner) both providers and their subscribers will move to the next level of speed and gigabit networks. However, despite the successes, things are not moving too quickly yet.

There are basically two reasons for this. The first is that subscribers do not need such high speeds. You can download even 100 Mbit/s only with movies from torrents, and even then only in FullHD. Of course, in a large family with active users, a wide channel may still be useful in some way, but there are not too many such subscribers. The second reason is the noticeably different subscription fee compared to tariffs on networks with a maximum speed of 100 Mbit/s. Usually the fee is higher than the psychologically acceptable 1000 rubles per month, and noticeably higher than the current payment. The reason for this state of affairs is trivial - active equipment of a completely different class with a corresponding price tag, the payback of which, at low tariffs, stretches beyond the planning horizon.

However, there are exceptions to any rule. For our country, this exception was the xPON networks of the two largest telephone operators: MGTS and Rostelecom. Unlike the bulk of providers, whose network was built according to FTTB technologies FastEthernet, xPON initially meant the ability to transfer more than one hundred megabits per second to the subscriber, albeit with its own characteristics. It would be foolish not to take advantage of such a competitive advantage, and MGTS launched tariffs with speeds of 200, 350 and 500 Mbit/s a couple of years ago. True, they put a corresponding price tag on them, which immediately made high-speed tariffs uninteresting for the general public. After looking at the dismal results of such activities, the operator decided that it was time to change something. The result of this was a new offer: 200 Mbit/s for 490 rubles per month. This is almost 2.5 times cheaper than the “regular” MGTS tariff. Not only that, it’s cheaper than the vast majority of competitors’ 100 Mbps offerings, not to mention anything more. At such a cost, you can safely forget about the redundancy of such speed - if they give it, why not take it? Perhaps it will come in handy someday. And even if you don’t need it, it’s still cheap.

The only negative circumstance at this celebration of life is the promotional nature of the tariff: it will be available for connection only until the end of May for new subscribers. This is smoothed out by the fact that, unlike other similar offers, the tariff parameters will not change after the promotional period. So the lucky ones will continue to pay 490 rubles per month for a speed of 200 Mbit/s.

One question remains: why is MGTS? The answer is, in general, simple. There are practically no new subscribers in the capital, and there is simply nowhere to get them in large quantities. In such a situation, the only way to increase the client base is to steal it from others, but the problem is that in order to save 100 rubles, only a small part will rush to change providers. There remains dumping both in price and speed. An important circumstance is that investments in the network have already been made, and immediately in a high-speed network, which gave a significant advantage over competitors, for whom, in the current conditions, the cost of development has doubled.