[1rudeboy]

Full disclosure: I am not a computer nerd.

Is this because ISP's distinguish between residential and business access? Why would a person who is not surfing from the office gum-up the works because he is surfing from home?

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Actually, more resources are alloted for business and education use than home access.....

This makes no sense to me.....

[Gondring]

Using myself as an example, when I'm in the office, multiple gigabytes get transferred internally between servers and users, on the "corporate intranet."*

When at home, accessing the corporate network, all my interactions with the servers or other users must go over the (shared) Internet. *I know that's an old term, but there's no need to abandon it.