Problem: most regular users have horrible asymmetric internet connections, and it certainly has not improved at 50x/decade as stated. As I recall, I had 2Mbit/5

Problem: most regular users have horrible asymmetric internet connections, and it certainly has not improved at 50x/decade as stated. As I recall, I had 2Mbit/512kbit cable in 2000, and now I Have 10Mbit/1Mbit. "Youtube, Netflix, and a lot of other services put a very large number of boxes close to consumers to provide high-bandwidth low-latency connections. A side effect of this is that any company that owns one of these services has the capability of providing consumers with infinite disk that’s only slightly slower than normal disk.[...]The most common counter argument to disaggregated disk, both inside and outside of the datacenter, is bandwidth costs. But bandwidth costs have been declining exponentially for decades and continue to do so." I have, at best, 1 Mbit upstream at my house. The author states: "A typical consumer 3TB HD has an average throughput of 155MB/s, making the time to read the entire drive 3e12 / 155e6 seconds = 1.9e4 seconds = 5 hours and 22 minutes." but my upstream connection is three orders slower (in spite of costing the same amount). How am I supposed to get my data to the provider? Just emailing an attached photo is already painful... These are really intersting ideas for business and the data center, but I think the author is out of touch with how bad consumer internet service is for us regular chumps.