Count every screen that could be running a stream at the same time on a busy evening, not just the number of people who live in the house on paper. A household with a living room TV, a bedroom tablet, and a kid's device all running at once is three simultaneous streams, and each one needs its own bandwidth budget: roughly 15-25 Mbps for 4K, 5-8 Mbps for 1080p. A plan's connection limit and your internet plan's total real-world throughput both have to clear that combined bar together, not separately from each other.

99.99% uptime works out to about 53 minutes of downtime a year on the service's own side, which is a small, checkable number you can reasonably hold any provider to before you commit a household's viewing to it. That figure is separate from your home internet's own reliability, and separate from a single-channel outage, which usually points to a source problem rather than the whole service being down at once for everyone. Ask for a published uptime figure directly before you commit a whole household's worth of screens to any one service long-term.

IP4KTV's 12-month plan runs $10 a month ($120 total) with 1-5 simultaneous connections and unlimited installs across your own devices at no extra charge, against typical US cable or satellite at $70-130 a month that often charges extra for each additional box in a second room of the house, and streaming bundles at $40-90 a month that can cap devices per individual app separately from each other. For a multi-screen household, the per-connection math tends to favor a single plan with a clear connection limit over juggling several separate app subscriptions each month.