User blog comment:SpaceWeather/Hey I'm Back... But Why Was I Gone?/@comment-3483396-20140325061731/@comment-1874924-20140325193850

Yes, my technique requires an Internet connection, because I use e-mail accounts as described below.

I currently have a DSL connection that's listed at 1.5 Mbps but averages 1.2. That has never posed a problem. Even LTDI's Word file is only about 1.5 MB for a document that currently has almost 125K words of text. It might be more of a pain if you have a lot of artwork, but that's not an issue for me. I don't back up my whole computer by e-mail, only selected files.