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		leetcrew on Aug 12, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their ... to me, a symmetric connection is more of a "nice to have" than a "need". I have something like 400/25 right now. if I had 400/400 or even 1000/1000, I might consider reconfiguring my plex server to stream outside my LAN, but aside from that I can't think of any obvious application. can you list some of these "essential peer-to-peer technologies" that a normal person would be likely to use?

admax88q on Aug 12, 2020 [–]

Even just backing up your shit to the cloud is way nicer with good upload.

Its also a bit of a chicken egg situation. If the majority of internet users had good upload maybe some "killer" p2p apps would be developed.

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