Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds?
by cm2187 on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @07:26PM
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To me the main difference is upload speed. Suddenly you can start using the internet as a LAN, and then only it starts to make sense to work in the cloud, save all your files there, not worry about the house burning down or being burglarised. Probably even more useful for smaller businesses.
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Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds?
by riebschlager on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @09:27PM
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I totally agree with that. I can throw a 100MB ZIP into my Dropbox folder without a second thought. Box and Google Drive are equally snappy.
With Google Fiber "Free" and Time Warner before it, I was capped at 1 Mbps upstream and cloud services were much more or a chore.
Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds?
by revelation on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @10:45PM
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In light of this, would you now revise your original comment?
Re:How Will Consumers Use Faster Internet Speeds?
by riebschlager on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:14PM
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Not really. Before or after gigabit, I'd throw that file in my Dropbox. It just sucks less now.
A fast connection doesn't mean that I'm deciding to throw more stuff online or make more use of cloud services. It's just nicer that the stuff I have to transfer moves a helluva lot faster now. So I haven't noticed a significant difference in my usage.