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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
Even multiple HD streams don't require anything like 100Mbps. Peanut is spot on that the high end VM products are to a large extent taken to speed up high volume downloads be they full quality bluray rips, tatty not-worth-watching divx stuff or linux ISOs (which I doubt make up even 1% of the traffic).
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Wow, people still don't get it. That may be true for a single user, but many households have more than one. If I want to watch iPlayer I don't want to to be choppy because someone else is using Google Drive/Dropbox, uploading some photos to Facebook or downloading something. You don't have to think "will this action elicit howls of pain from the lounge?", you just get on with what you are doing*.
I actually mentioned this back in 2004 when I used my friend's 100Mb connection in Japan. Back then you got 100Mb both ways (real fibre optic). There was even less stuff to max your connection out in 2004, but that wasn't the main attraction. Apparently no-one listens to me.
* In theory, VM's service is "up to" and limited so YMMV.