Maybe it's the pain meds, but it just hit me why DSL sucks. Hollywood wants it that way. Who cares if you can backup your 2TB hard drive over the net? Hollywood doesn't. All they want is for you to download their weak-ass content at fast speeds. Sure, we'll see 100mpbs downloads soon enough, but we'll still be stuck at 1mbps. Your internet connection is just another tool for the retailers to sell you crap, the content providers to make you watch crap, and the advertisers to convince you to watch or buy crap. It's not about what you want, it's about what they want to sell you.
I'm really feeling that the only way to fix the sad state of broadband in the USA is through federal action. If we leave it to private enterprise, there really will never be an incentive for them to sell us the services we actually want.