When I download a game on steam the servers are so good it maxes out my bandwidth of 70mbps. Making it unusable for my family if they are gaming online or watching content that doesn’t come from a good server.

Why are you lowering your speeds. Even with very good QOS you are pushing it.

I would not want to do that. One game update and the whole connection is struggling. Xbox/PS5 downloading something in standby? Not fun.

If I understood right, you’re downgrading your connection from 500 to 70Mbps, and the question is whether this will be enough for six people?

I’d say it depends on to what degree all six of you will be doing bandwith intensive things at the same time.

For example, Netflix recommends minimum 15Mpbs for a 4k stream, so if all six of you will be doing that on separate screens at the same time, you’ll be about 20Mpbs short. But if everyone is on 1080 screens you’ll be fine as the requirement is 5Mpbs per stream.

Remote work doesn’t necessarily require a lot of bandwidth, although it depends on what you actually do for work. MS Teams for example only requires about 2Mpbs for group video calls.

Most gaming also doesn’t require a lot of bandwidth, but of course downloading games and their updates does.

Will it work? Yes I think so, though you may encounter times when it gets laggy.

I live in a 6 person house. 70mbps just for myself is already frustrating, any person who downloads a game without putting a download limit will hog the whole bandwidth causing the internet to be unusable.

It won’t be enough. The second you start watching a couple of netflix streams at 4k your connection is going to be nearly at capacity and unless you have some sort of effective qos on the router you’re going to suffer potentially from bufferbloat - increased latency which will make gaming agony

Bro, youre not gonna stream anything. I did this. I went from cable to dsl and back to cable after a week cause the 25-50mb dsl was garbage.