And, my own metric, of how many 56k modems do you need to get the same amount of data (@~14GB/month download rate). AKA, most cell phone plans this year, can't

And, my own metric, of how many 56k modems do you need to get the same amount of data (@~14GB/month download rate). AKA, most cell phone plans this year, can't even download as much in a month as my 56k modem could in the late 1990's. In the end, the big scam here is that if anything netflix/etc traffic is probably less expensive per packet than most other services because netflix is more than happy to scatter their little caching boxes everywhere, so the ISP's backhaul/peering arrangement has less traffic...