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I can see you don't regularly have to upload terabytes of data every day. A faster connection would literally change my work life.
Can't detect if serious.
Last time I needed a > 1TB dataset they sent it in the snail mail.
Not sure what is the snail mail, but yes; serious. It's mostly simulations data. I can easily produce 100 TB/GPU*day. I have access to some 500 GPUs. Data can not stay where it is produced in order to free up space for more to be produced and must be shuffled around to be processed, thus the importance of a fast internet connection. Sometimes I need to get part of this data on my local computer, process it and upload it somewhere else, it can be terribly slow on a normal 1 GB/s connection.
Snail mail is traditional mail, in this case presumably sending a physical data storage device for those terabytes of data, which could maybe be faster and more reliable than networking it.
Oh, yes I do need to do that from time to time. That's why a faster internet connection would make life simpler.