Originally Posted by MrMaxwell

I guess that I made it sound like my only concern is browsing.. and I think you're right that it won't give me much of an advantage for simple browsing because my local connection has terrible ping times most of the time anyway. So looking at something on the remote machine would be just as slow as trying to pull it from any other web server. I do understand that.

I'm thinking more in terms of multi tasking. With the faster remote connection I could be watching movies online, downloading some things in the background and uploading some files all at once.