That was a delightful write up. My first _personal_ Internet connection was in France and was a dial-up 56kb/s modem connection (I could saturate it! :) Just

That was a delightful write up. My first _personal_ Internet connection was in France and was a dial-up 56kb/s modem connection (I could saturate it! :) Just before moving from Denmark to USA I had dirt cheap 1 Gb/s cable network so I was floored to find that not only not generally available in Silicon Valley, but also generally much more expensive and less reliable. In _Silicon_ Valley! (Yes, in SF there are more options today, but in the original Silicon Valley in the south bay, options are very poor and I refuse to ever again deal with Comcast). My current provider (Sail Internet) provides a symmetric connection so I have experimented with cloud backup. The difference between my internal network (10G and some 100G) and the external (< 1G) is pretty sad. ADD: I'm so sick of hearing ("why do you need that" or "what's the point"). There are plenty of applications TODAY, but even if you don't have any, new ones will manifest themselves once the technology is available - it's the way technology works (who would have imagined that daily video conference would be a part of life?).