I work at Backblaze -> we absolutely do NOT throttle. Inherently each pod has some built in limitations, for example it has a 1 Gbit/sec network card, so you w

I work at Backblaze -> we absolutely do NOT throttle. Inherently each pod has some built in limitations, for example it has a 1 Gbit/sec network card, so you won't be able to exceed that. But many, many customers get 100 Mbits/sec upload speed, I can show you our internal chart if you like. I'm glad you got a fast restore download, we have been BATTLING Comcast in recent weeks, between 5pm and midnight downloading restores from Comcast has been trickle slow. Some people claim this is due to Netflix traffic, but I think some system admin somewhere is not doing their damn job. We think we have finally figured out a work around just this morning...