Indeed, but if you consider that plenty of cheap servers with larger links exist, and attackers aren't limited to using one... Essentially, you'd run this acro

Indeed, but if you consider that plenty of cheap servers with larger links exist, and attackers aren't limited to using one... Essentially, you'd run this across a botnet so that rather than focusing all the traffic at one target, you retrieve the massive amount of data much faster than your single system could.