Note to self: Backup bottlenecks

2014-03-23 18:26 More posts about Hacking network speed Note to Self
I learnt the following relations the hard way 10 years ago when trying to backup a rather tiny amount of data, went through the computation again three years ago. Still I had to re-do the computation this morning when trying to pull a final full backup from my old MacBook. Posting here for future reference: Note 1: Some numbers like 10BASE-T included only for historic reference. Note 2: Excluded the Alice DSL uplink speed - if included the left-hand chart would no longer be particularly helpful or readable...