My wife and I have been looking for a property out in the rural parts of Michigan. One of the homes we went to visit with our realtor had left out a laptop computer in order to test the internet. Damn thing has ADSL and gets 2.2mbps down lmao. I do not miss the ADSL days.
My home used to get 4 Mbps down until water got into the paper insulated trunk lines and became unusable. My new pair maxxed out at 2. So happy that all my broadband internet surcharges were spent on improving the customer experience.
Latency definitely, but imagine pigeons carrying 8TB M.2 PCIe Gen-5 sticks strapped to their backs. That's some crazy throughput rivaling most domestic internet connections.
Rings true for me. In my younger days I was "privileged" to catch an early morning flight to San Jose with a stack of tapes that I then drove to Palo Alto. All because a RAID array had gone kaput and tapes in a carry-on provided better bandwidth than the upstream from the office where our backups were.