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Nielsen's Law of Internet Bandwidth
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Users' bandwidth grows by 50% per year (10% less than Moore's Law for computer speed). The new law fits data from 1983 to 2023.
4 Nielsen's Law of Internet Bandwidth Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen April 4, 1998 · Updated Jan. 23, 2023 2023-01-23 Share Email article Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Summary: Users' bandwidth grows by 50% per year (10% less than Moore's Law for computer speed). The new law fits data from 1983 to 2023. Nielsen's law of internet bandwidth states: A high-end user's connection speed grows by 50% per year. The dots in the diagram show the various speeds with which I have connected to the net, from an early acoustic 300 bps modem in 1984 to an ISDN line when I first wrote this article
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