[the_paul]

These are totally valid concerns. The average home internet upload cap, especially in the US, is not very generous. But the idea with Space Monkey is that most of your ongoing data access will be directly from your own device. If you're at home already, that will be especially fast. If not, it will be slower, but we're still able to watch movies in remote tests over a crappy home DSL uplink.

Other people's upload bandwidth only needs to come into play if your device isn't available: its hard drive breaks, it gets stolen, your house burns down, etc. In that case, yes, getting all of your data back probably will be slower than you want it to be, but you will get it all back.

Regarding redundancy, be assured that Space Monkey can provide much better numbers than RAID-6. We do assume that a decent percentage of devices will have poor network uptime, and we want your data to be available and redundant even in the face of that, even if the "fancy algorithms" take more processing power on the devices than we would need otherwise :).