[scarface74]

By the way, Comcast has announced that it literally intends to offer full 1 Gbit/sec service to every last customer in the United States, so another way to go is upgrade your internet for 1 month, then downgrade it later.

Comcast is promising 1GB download speeds. Their maximum upload speed is still an abysmal 35Mbps.

[brianwski]

> Comcast is promising 1GB download speeds. Their maximum upload speed is still an abysmal 35Mbps.

Well, I have Comcast and my upload speed is 100 Mbits/sec.

But even at 35 Mbits/sec you can upload 378 GBytes PER DAY. That means that within the Backblaze free trial of 14 days you can upload 5.2 Terabytes. Within Backblaze's recommended "fully backed up" period of 30 days you can upload 11.3 TBytes!! And we'll look the other way if it takes you 60 days and you get 22.6 TBytes uploaded.

Consumers really can have "online backup" with 35 Mbits/sec upload speed. They really can, and they can be comfortable doing it.

[scarface74]

And if you fully max out the 35 mbps upload, your connection will be useless for a month - even for downloads. Learned that from when I did have Comcast and I was uhh “downloading Linux distros with bit torrent”.

[Dylan16807]

Sure, so cap the backup process to 25.

Having a connection that's more asymmetrical than 5:1 is dumb, but those numbers are still good enough for online backup.