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Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC

Guspaz to ITALIAN926

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Re: what happened....

There are lots of uses for fast upstream and downstream, even if you don't need it all the time.

Say you buy a movie online and you want to watch it. Say it's 10GB. On a 10/1 connection, it would take almost two and a half hours to download; not exactly "Hey guys, what should we watch?" speeds. On a 1000/1000 connection, it would take a minute and a half, within the "Hey guys, what should we watch? OK, gimme a minute to grab it." zone.

It also enables higher quality streaming; Netflix' HD is about 3.6 megabit to cater to slower connections. But with unmetered gigabit, you could stream a bluray unmodified.

Then there's uploads. Youtube uploads. Dropbox uploads. Backup uploads. These things take time.

On a 10/1 connection, uploading your computer's 2TB hard drive to BackBlaze would take roughly 4,600 hours of uninterrupted uploading... that's over six months! On a 1000/1000 connection, the same backup would take a bit under five hours.
prairiesky
join:2008-12-08
canada

prairiesky

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Who downloads the entire movie before watching it anymore? That's arcaic, get with the times. Think to the future, it's all streaming, there's no reason to have thousands of copies of the same content stored all over the place. As long as your download is faster than the streaming rate, the user doesn't notice a difference.

As for backups, after the initial backup, it's all incrimental which is minimal. No point in backing up your itunes collection, it's all saved on your itunes account, much quicker and easier to retrieve it straight from apple.