The day I killed my LAN

Today I called my provider to quit my office's ADSL internet subscription, I don't need it anymore. I have turned off my local area network and switched my workflow onto mobile internet only. The simplicity and savings actually surprised me so much, that I made blog post for it.

Without a doubt I am an heavy internet user, I develop internet applications for a living. I move gigabytes of data on a weekly basis. You think that of all people I would need a dedicated fast internet subscription in my office, right?

Wrong! (I was surprised too!) Over the past few years my workflow has changed. Previously I used a local workstation to do the heavy lifting, downloading and uploading many gigabytes of data. But now, I no longer have a local workstation: I use a cloud based workstation instead.

Because my data is already online, there is no need to download and upload it locally. This significantly reduces the need for a fast (local) internet connection. I still move a lot of data, but it moves "inside the cloud", from one fast internet server to another.

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