My freshman year of college was at a university with 1gb fiber connections to the dorm rooms. Naturally, this meant there were DirectConnect servers all over campus with a variety of files.<p>Most servers had their motd set to &quot;Please download media and watch locally,&quot; as there was enough bandwidth to direct-play video files over the network. Unfortunately, there was not enough hard drive bandwidth to service multiple requests for this simultaneously (this was before the SSD revolution).<p>Definitely a moment of &quot;Hunh. Never expected to run into <i>that</i> bottleneck.&quot;