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This is going to become less and less of a problem as time goes on.

There was a time when the idea of streaming high quality video and doing so using Flash, at that, seemed ridiculous, but it's ridiculously commonplace, now.

I often stream things from a VPS instance to my home via sshfs right now. Doing so over even 3G would work in many cases.



Shoot, I do this with Plex:web off my Mac Mini all the time. Works great. Now has HTML5 video AFAIK, and scales the quality to the available bandwidth. I watch on my Android phone over 3G all the time.

In reality my "cloud storage" is just my Mac Mini with a set of drives attached, and mounted via SSHfs when I really need it. Works fine, but a nicer software package that's more akin to a self-hosted Dropbox would be pretty nice. I don't need a dongle, though it's a nice idea if you don't have a home server.


My parents AT&T DSL tops out at 384kbps upstream. This is not an option for them or 1/2 of American with similar "broadband" options.




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