Family households
The right IPTV setup for a family isn't about the content library — it's about the number of simultaneous connections your plan actually allows, since that's what determines whether two people can watch different things at once.
It caps how many streams can run at the exact same moment on one account — a 2-connection plan lets two devices watch (the same or different content) simultaneously, but a third device trying to start a stream will be blocked or will interrupt one of the others, depending on the provider.
Count the number of screens likely to be active at once, not the number of devices you own — a household of four with a shared living room TV and a couple of bedrooms watching separately often needs 3-4 simultaneous connections rather than one per person.
No — a single plan's connections typically work across mixed hardware, so one connection can run on a Smart TV, another on a phone, and another on an Android box at the same time, without needing matching devices.
Not from the provider's side if the plan supports that many connections, but your home network still has to carry all those streams at once — if buffering shows up only when multiple screens are active, check your router's bandwidth and see our buffering fixes guide.
Match your plan's connection count to your household's actual simultaneous usage, not the device count sitting in a drawer. See pricing by device tier, and pair that with the right plan length for how long you expect to keep it.