My wife sweet talked our ISP into a bandwidth upgrade.

[Kevin]

Maybe your wife could do the same for me? 75Mb/s sounds beastly.

It was kind of funny. She was on the phone questioning a few things about our bill (she always nitpicks every charge, bless her stingy heart), and got the salesguy to upgrade us from our old plan to the new one for only $4 more per month. She did it because it gives us 20GB more towards our bandwidth cap, and we also got a free new HD cable box and a new Cisco modem/router. She told me "the salesguy said it's also a bit faster". When I plugged in the new modem, I wasn't expecting a 7x speed boost.

I still couldn't deal with a bandwidth cap. Sure I'm only running at 25 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up. I could upgrade to 50/2 but don't feel like paying more than I am, it's very very rare that I feel I need more down speed, though I do want more up speed often. But I would go nuts with a bandwidth limit. I have no TV, I stream Netflix/Hulu/NFL Rewind/etc all the time and still download a fair bit of other stuff (I've been playing with linux again so I'm grabbing various distros all the time). So while I'm envious of your 3x my down speed, I'll take slower and not have the bandwidth limit.