7. Multitask Like You're Used To

Broadband upload speeds, particularly for cable subscribers, are famously atrocious. For the majority of users who spend most of their online time downloading or streaming photos, music and videos, it’s not much of an issue. But what about when your media is going the other way?
I upload photos to my Flickr account in the dead of night, otherwise my broadband connection slows to such a crawl I can barely get anything else done. Uploading photos, working on Google Docs, downloading a large file and surfing the web all at the same time? Forget about it. Now, imagine you’re using Chrome and you’re constantly uploading and downloading files to and from the cloud. Upload speeds being what they are today pose a significant hurdle to multitasking on Chrome. And, let’s not forget that broadband providers have been experimenting with bandwidth caps recently. If all of your data resides online and you’re continuously pulling it down and pushing it back up again, imagine how expensive that will get.