On the subject of how much bandwidth does one household need, here's a fun stat for you.


At the IETF’s 118th meeting<https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/118/> last week (Nov 4 – 10, 2023), there were over 1,000 engineers in attendance. At peak there were 870 devices connected to the WiFi network. Peak bandwidth usage:

  *   Downstream peak ~750 Mbps
  *   Upstream ~250 Mbps



From my pre-meeting Twitter poll (https://twitter.com/jlivingood/status/1720060429311901873):

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