That's my point. NANOG users are not the average user. For every one of you there are at least a thousand people who just want good Netflix connections and even if they might be backing up stuff remotely they are sending a few selfies and a couple Word docs. Steven Naslund Chicago IL
Hmm... my copy of crashplan is reporting 8mps of upload right now. Granted, that's not average, but it can be sustained for a while, whenever I shut down a virtual machine (Parallels on a Mac, the entire virtual image takes a while to back >up - not all that uncommon). I also expect that most folks who buy a network backup service just use the default settings for when to do backups - which suggests an >awful lot of backup traffic going on at the same time every night.
Miles Fidelman