My freshman year of college was at a university with 1gb fiber connections to the dorm rooms. Naturally, this meant there were DirectConnect servers all over ca

My freshman year of college was at a university with 1gb fiber connections to the dorm rooms. Naturally, this meant there were DirectConnect servers all over campus with a variety of files. Most servers had their motd set to "Please download media and watch locally," as there was enough bandwidth to direct-play video files over the network. Unfortunately, there was not enough hard drive bandwidth to service multiple requests for this simultaneously (this was before the SSD revolution). Definitely a moment of "Hunh. Never expected to run into that bottleneck."