Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

[Andy Ringsmuth <andy () newslink com>]

> On Jun 26, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
>
> Some of those are why would one EVER need more than X, while others are why would one NOW need more than X. Big 
> difference. Simple fact that there is no residential application that needs more than even 50 megabit much less 
> 10,000 megabit. 


Oh sure there is. What happens when you use Carbonite or one of the other online backup services and needed a full 
restore? I bet the average home user, considering one to three or four PCs, could easily have a few terabytes of data. 
A 500G disk dies and you restore a backup. Bingo, you’re pegging the meter for quite a while.

Or even routine backups. On my Mac, after an average day at the office, my Time Machine backup runs anywhere from 1 to 
10 gigabytes. If I were to run a Carbonite-type backup when I got home, that’s a substantial chunk.



-Andy