&gt; Many of these types of services seem to intentionally cap upload speeds to reduce their potential storage liability (since they&#x27;re likely over-selling storage to be able to offer 1 TB for $12 with the level of redundancy, staffing costs, etc, needed).<p>SpiderOak is definitely overselling the 1TB as well as another one that pops up once in a while called as the &quot;unlimited&quot; plan for $149 a year. This is clear from the disproportional pricing structure - $79 a year for 30GB that jumps to $129 a year for 1TB and then to $279 a year for 5TB - which entices users to go for the higher amounts because they appear to be great deals. What people with residential broadband connections may not realize is that a) uploading even 1TB of data will take a long time and b) SpiderOak cannot, and does not, provide any minimum guarantees on the upload or download speeds (assuming everything else in between SpiderOak and the user looks fine).