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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.

To Romania? Yes, that’s more implausible. Not impossible though.

So you doubt the veracity of the forensic experts in the story? I do not know anything about the speed. I thought the case they presented coordinates with what has been reported here and the fact a progressive magazine printed the story at all was interesting.

Speeders typically are optimized to go from a server to a client. You’ll find real world speeds quite different. Not to mention, due to business rates, it’s more than likely they had a 10mb or possibly a 100mb link. Unlikely to have a gigabit link.

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'.