IDC Market Study

reference https://www.wi-fi.org/download.php?file=/sites/default/files/private/members/MTG-WiFi_Home_Design_R2-MRD-v1.0.pdf


3.2.1 IDC Market Study A market study conducted by IDC to determine how adults use their Internet-connected devices at home and what pain points they might have when it comes to streaming video, audio or online games found more than half of survey respondents said they frequently or always experience buffering, interruptions or other performance issues on their home network.

Frequency of buffering/performance issues during various activities:
42% playing online video games.
34% streaming a movie or TV show.
25% listening to music.
18% surfing the web.

Also of the respondents who could identify their wireless router technology, only one in 8 use the latest version of Wi-Fi (Wireless AC) and nearly half of the respondents who could identify their router’s wireless technology said it ran a version of Wi-Fi that was first ratified a dozen years ago or older.


Source: http://www.linksys.com/resources/img/features/ea8500/The_Home_Internet_Network_IDC_Brief.PDF