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Fiber or FIOS? Hell, there are decades old copper services that well exceeded 25mB/s. They talk like 2016 is ancient history too. *head scratch* Even your average high-end residential ISPs which tend to offer asynchronous services will still let you download much faster then that. So I could maybe buy the hypothesis that the speeds were close to USB2.0 but not that it was too fast for readily available internet speeds.

Many businesses, especially ones that aren't major IT users, don't have speeds like that. They buy the cheapest internet possible because they only need it for email.

But the big thing I don't get with this story is why are they talking about download speed? The big point should be upload speed. Most internet packages (residential or commercial) generally have a much lower upload bandwidth than down. Newer fiber providers don't do this, but it used to be a 20Mb connection would only have maybe 5Mb up. Most packages were 2-8x slower on the upstream connection versus the advertised number, the downstream. So the big thing would be, is how fast could the DNC internet package have uploaded the files? When I download stuff, Steam can hit 40+ MB/s, because they upload a LOT, and have the infrastructure and connection to hit those numbers. But other sites might only hit 1-2 Mb/s, because they don't have much stuff to download. It's not my connection, it's the content providers'.

Of course it depends on the type, but most business do not use their internet just for email. A lot of traffic is two way and many businesses use cloud based services, which include email (like office365), file/project collaboration, data backups, and even IP based telecommunications. It’s really not hard to choke a small to moderate bandwidth connection with multiple users online and making calls, which doesn’t bother to take into account browsing, or the fact that many businesses attach a wifi connection which even if used only by employee devices can and isn’t public can hunk into that pipe too. If your IT guy/dept has moderately austere policies, the firewall will be blocking all the favorite music and video app/browser streaming services. lol