Chris roughly says that Bittorrent is better than sneakernet. I've heard that word before, and I use BT a lot. *a lot*. That's how I've watched Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Alias and Enterprise. As an aside, what's up with this winter season of TV? There's 5 shows - previous 4 + 24 - that I'm interested in. I can't remember the last time there were even 3 shows I was interested in in a season.
In my post, I said that 200gig just wouldn't cut it over dsl/internet-1. The math is roughly:
Average DSL upload speed: 100 kbps
Content amount: 200 gigabytes
Time to transfer: 200 000 000 000 / 10 000 (10 KB per second) = 20 000 000 seconds.
20 million seconds is a long time. 231 days in fact. Plus that 100 kbps is assuming nobody else is getting content. Even if we could get 1 Mbps upload/download speed that's 23 days.
BT scales up to the low gigabyte range, but not very close to TB for residential DSL/Cable customers.
It's way easier to just hand my friends a 200 gig drive. Sneaker-net lives!