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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Ringsmuth)
Fri Jun 26 17:36:39 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Andy Ringsmuth <andy@newslink.com>
In-Reply-To: <335296361.4899.1435352530416.JavaMail.mhammett@ThunderFuck>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 16:36:34 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Jun 26, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
>=20
> 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.=20
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=E2=80=99re 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=E2=80=99s a =
substantial chunk.
-Andy
