May Was Busiest Month for HomePass Wi-Fi Connectivity, Says Plume
Stay-at-home mandates spurred the average HomePass Wi-Fi subscriber home to surpass 1.87 TB in 2020 data use, “the equivalent of downloading Home Alone 467 times,” emailed smart home company Plume Wednesday. May “was the busiest month on average for HomePass…
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members,” at 261 GB per home, it said, as that month “saw the beginning of people adjusting to the stay-at-home order.” Plume “blocked 676 security threats for the average HomePass household this year,” it said. “The number of threats blocked in each home varies based on factors such as number and types of devices, amount of online activity, and global cyberthreat trends.” The average speed in a HomePass home was 287.77 Mbps for the year, it said.