Today on WIRED December 17, 2021 Faster Home Broadband Should Be Enshrined in Law By Chris Stokel-Walker The way we use the internet has changed—and fast. Before the pandemic, telecoms and internet service provider BT was handling five terabits of data every second from its UK customers during the day. When the pandemic hit and the world locked down, data volumes doubled. In Germany, DE-CIX Frankfurt, a major connection point for the global internet, broke multiple bandwidth records with 2020 peak volumes beating 2019 rates by 28 percent . One week, the world's offices were buzzing. The next, they were silent. In the new normal, office workers spend their days leaping from one video conferen...