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Originally Posted by andymt
to be honest with you having speeds faster than 4mb is only useful for offices on a large network-having 6-10mb on one machine is stupid, and, cuz you can only visit one site at once, you will prob not see much difference between 4 and 6 unless you have a network.
anyway fgs i dunno y everyone is so uptight im on 1mb and im a heavy user. all i care about is that there are no caps.
i download movies, music, the lot.... and 1mb is fine.
i can do a movie in 2hrs!
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you can do a one disc xvid or a one disc vcd, or a short svcd in an hour. What about a dvdr? That'd take you5 hours.
It's INSANE to say that >4mbit is useless for the home user.
Any sort of heavy downloader wants better speeds. I download a lot and play a fair bit of games online. I obviously can't do both at the same time. A faster pipe gives me more free time to play games.
If you do any usenet downloading you should find it fairly easy to max out 3mbit. with a decent news host, maxing out 10mbit should be dead easy.
Personally, the amount i download at the moment is enough. I can't really see me downloading MUCH more. A faster connection would just allow me to download roughly the same amount, in less time.
I do a fair bit of uploading, so the extra upload would definitely be useful for me, though.
Perhaps you're fine with 1mbit, but lots of us crave better speeds.