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100 Mbps Broadband - what would you use it for?

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OK, with super fast broadband arriving, well, super fast, it begs the question what would you use it for?

So go on then, what would you do with such speedy broadband that you couldn't do before?
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Nothing that I couldn't do before, but I would certainly increase the amount I download. Personally my little broadband connection is fast enough for online gaming (albeit I could use a better system), so the only other use would be to get porno that little bit faster!
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superBB would have local server farms go bankrupt. right now you can't get a good upload rate at home here, and server farms charge over $100/month for a 1U slot.
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Nothing that I couldn't do before, but I would certainly increase the amount I download. Personally my little broadband connection is fast enough for online gaming (albeit I could use a better system), so the only other use would be to get porno that little bit faster!
Yeah your rite.. Mine at present is 1Mbps.. Considering a 100Mbps we can download movies in 4 to 5 minutes.. *Awwh* just wished i had 100Mbps
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I'd probably set up a computer as a lowly little server. And/or share the connection with my neighbors, depending on the cost. However, I sincerely doubt that such a connection will be available for residences in the US for a long time. It would take an enormous backbone network to support several million people using 100Mbps networks from their homes.
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OK, with super fast broadband arriving, well, super fast, it begs the question what would you use it for?

So go on then, what would you do with such speedy broadband that you couldn't do before?
I would make me really happy since the current 100 kbps scheme kind of sucks...
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It would be a massive leap for teenagers though. I'm sure most of us can remember waiting for an image to download on a 56K "OMG I can see the top of her head now!!!"

I think when I was younger I vary rarely seen a fully naked woman online....
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56K? I can recall things like the 300 baud modems, and the joy when I got hold of one of those new fangled 1200/75 split rate things!
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same here. Would make no difference whatsoever (except for the price which would almost certainly be way up there, especially initially).

The only reason I upgraded my connection from 1MBps to (now, it went in several stages) 8 is that it was cheaper that way (got a free upgrade to 4, keeping it at 1 would have cost me money to change my contract to a lower speed, then upgraded to 8 when my ISP introduced that at a lower price than the 4 I had at the time cost me).

For throughput, anything more is useless to me. I rarely go over 2MBps and that only for minutes when downloading another large beta or dataset for the software testing I do for some companies.
Higher upstream might be nice at times, but traffic to my selfhosted server isn't all that high so the 1MBit upstream I have is usually more than enough to cope.
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I would download linux distros 24/7!
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