I do cloud backups. And one of my hobbies is photography. So occasionally I will dump 2 or 3 thousand 20 Mbyte images on my local computer from a trip. It takes a very long time to back that up at 10 or 20 mbits, which is the upload speed you often get from say cable companies (even if they have fiber to your house, the upload is throttled to be very slow).Those, of course, if properly organized, should be done via remote console/desktop access to secure corporate network (consuming tiny amount of bandwidth) rather than by pulling them up and down to a home PC.It appears there's a decent number of users who do remote administration of system images that are routinely hundreds of GB or even TB's each. If a coworker or client can't continue their job until your upload finishes, and the resulting value of time lost is in the same ballpark as the premium you pay for the faster service, then I would consider that a "need" for higher speeds.
But I get your point. A corner case or two can be imagined. You will know if you are one. And if you have to ask, you aren't.
Thus I rather like having fast pipes. But yeah, I don't need the full download speeds.
Statistics: Posted by TN_Boy — Tue Jul 02, 2024 8:00 am — Replies 37 — Views 2754
