Having watched netflow data on how very large corp networks use data across sometimes hundreds of thousands of users, I have a pretty good idea what is possible, necessary, or abusive, but consumers use cases tend to be mostly around gaming or media (ala netflix) still imho.  As far as remote disk, I wouldn't trust putting my data external in most places that aren't under my control.  I begrudgingly and use limited today remote storage services out of necessity and lack of trust.

While I'd rather someone else deal with the redundancy of my nas, having to keep spare disks around, etc, but a) they're all too expensive in the quantity I'd generally need and b) anything not mine is attainable with little effort by ours or other governments.  My problem is I have highly confidential data from half of phoenix's government and private sector enterprises I have to keep exactly that, and it's something I really don't like to trust to external services still, period.  I've known of accounts of the feds showing up to not so politely ask to *borrow* a raid drive of customer's data for a bit as a service provider.  At least if they beat down my door here, the subterfuge is already blown.

Family pictures, even your mp3 collection, knock yourself out.

Aside from remote rsync and/or synchronous replication scenarios if I did trust someone, the only other large bandwidth use-cases I find myself with these days is simply when I need something like a linux iso, the latest vmware esx|workstation torrent, a lazy weekend to torrent whatever is in theaters, or some sucker corporate data leak on pirate bay ala ashley madison for morbid curiosity.  My 40mbps plan was and still is mostly as much as I need for just myself.  Cox stealthily doubled bandwidth again for channel alocations, just because the tech allowed for it, but I left my shaper on my router the same.  I really don't need it, eventually I'll adjust my egress queues for it.

Maybe I am turning into a luddite in my old age, and the though of gigabit to the home still excites me as a network dude from 9600 baud to beyond, but I install 40/100gbe links now regularly so until I get that here, coax or anything else is just meh.  I'd rather pay half for the original bandwidth I received that was fine for my usage at the 20, then 40, now 80mpbs.

What might force an upgrade to their *ultimate* package?  A second address for my other firewall, damn cox for not offering that ala carte.

-mb


On 10/28/2015 09:17 PM, Ted Gould wrote: