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Re: sooner or later said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. Easy to use online backup services, like Crashplan maybe? |
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cwh
join:2006-05-14
San Antonio, TX | said by talz13:said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. Easy to use online backup services, like Crashplan maybe? I use an online backup service. My initial back up took several days, but after that it is only backs up the differences. Faster upload would not really help this situation a great deal. |
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| said by cwh:said by talz13:said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. Easy to use online backup services, like Crashplan maybe? I use an online backup service. My initial back up took several days, but after that it is only backs up the differences. Faster upload would not really help this situation a great deal. My initial backup took almost a month, and that was after I pared down the amount that I wanted to back up. 180gb does not move very fast over 768k upstream. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
1 edit | I will agree with that - especially once you add overhead + any encryption.
On the upside - once you upload - backups typically become a 'delta'.
Personally - if it came down to a $5/month service, paying $$$ for higher upstream, or a $70 1TB backup device - I'd hit the 1TB device.
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said by talz13:said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. Easy to use online backup services, like Crashplan maybe? That's a good answer, but I don't see many people needing to upload large amounts of data in a short period of time.
What they do need first is higher caps not necessarily more speed. |
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 BHNtechXpertBHN StaffPremium,VIP
join:2006-02-16
Saint Petersburg, FL
kudos:32
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said by cwh:said by talz13:said by fifty nine:SO let me ask you - what is the average home user going to need 10 or 20Mbps upload for? Just a straight up honest question. And remember this is the AVERAGE home user, for legal uses only. Easy to use online backup services, like Crashplan maybe? I use an online backup service. My initial back up took several days, but after that it is only backs up the differences. Faster upload would not really help this situation a great deal. It doesn't matter what your upstream bw is for these services as almost all of them Mozy & Carbonite included bandwidth limit you to less than 5mbps. Despite promises to change this neither has stepped up...so this concept = fail at least for now..
So the real question again is posed. What will a purely average residential user need 40/40 for? Nothing...zip...nadda... |
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| said by BHNtechXpert:It doesn't matter what your upstream bw is for these services as almost all of them Mozy & Carbonite included bandwidth limit you to less than 5mbps. And I would LOVE to be able to reach that 5Mbps, which would be almost 7 times faster than I can upload now. |
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BHNtechXpertBHN StaffPremium,VIP
join:2006-02-16
Saint Petersburg, FL
kudos:32 Reviews:
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| said by talz13:said by BHNtechXpert:It doesn't matter what your upstream bw is for these services as almost all of them Mozy & Carbonite included bandwidth limit you to less than 5mbps. And I would LOVE to be able to reach that 5Mbps, which would be almost 7 times faster than I can upload now. I'm sorry for you. I enjoy 40/5 ...maybe one day you will have it in your area  |
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