The core service of the home cloud is to be a web hosting platform.

the attached picture (Webcaching.jpg) explains how a client (web browser) will learn of all the nodes in a network and how the page will be served from multiple "slow" nodes, combining to allow a page to load faster...

the basic premise is that if a web page has 1,000 10Kb elements this may take a while to load where the upload speed is very slow.

however combining many slow uploads, where an asymetric connecttion can download faster means that with more hosts and mirrors a page may load faster