Gig? A Lot? What's Enough?

Recently, we switched to fios for our internet. The fios rep sold my wife 1 gig. I don't know anything about this gig stuff, but I'm willing to bet 1 is more than we need. It's just me and my wife, we have 2 phones, 2 chromebooks, and an I-Pad. As soon as the rep heard that, she said we need a gig. But we can only use 2 at a time. Maybe I'll be watching a video, and she'll be playing a game. Other than that, we're on the net or texting.

I can't find a useful explanation of this gig stuff anywhere, and of course, on the fios site, I can't even find an offer of any gigs, let alone less gigs. (Or whatever you call it.)

Anyone know if we need a gig, and is it a lot?

We had crumcast, I mean comcast. We cut the cable tv a while ago, and now we got rid of crumcast entirely!! YEA! I can't stand crumcast!!!!! Where we live, there are few options. The fios just came through here, and not the tv aspect.

Side note: I intentionally did not capitalize comcast, crumcast or fios. It all sucks!

I have 10Mb DSL out in the country and we get by just fine. We stream music, 4 people in the house with phones, roku devices etc. It's not perfect but we get through the day just fine. My kids game, chat, watch videos etc.

They sold your wife a lie.

To frame things I'm an IT pro, been one for three decades. Could I use faster? Sure, but my family would likely never know the difference.