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> customers don't need that kind of speed.

Sure they don't, they also don't need bluray or terabyte hdds either... Should be rephrased to 'We hope customers don't realize they can use that type of speed.'

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Yup. That argument tends to bug me a bit. It's not that users don't need it, but more that they can't use it because they don't have it. I'd love to backup all my computers to the secure encrypted cloud with something like Backblaze. But, with 2mbps upload, I'm looking at like a month of straight upload time. If I had gig or even 100Mbps upstream, there would be no question here, I'd get to it. For now though, someone can argue "Oh look, you don't need gig because you're not even using your 2 meg all the time". Umm, yea, there's a reason I'm not using it all the time.

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