At 2:23 PM -0800 3/4/2010, John Carmonne wrote:
Notice there's not much help for upload probably an FCC thing to
keep the licensee's pockets heavier.
Nothing to do with the FCC.
This is because the older copper and coax based technologies are
asymmetrical -- higher bandwidth in one direction and much lower in
the other. This has traditionally been "ok" for residential service
because, until p2p and such, most customers didn't need to upload
much data. eg: V.90 dialup, ADSL, DOCSIS 1 & 2 (coax). The ISPs
reserved symmetrical services, which cost *much* more to maintain,
for their business-grade customers. eg: SDSL.
Newer technologies are changing all this. FTTH (Fiber to the Home)
is a symmetrical service, limited only by the quality of the
repeaters, routers, and backhaul. And DOCSIS 3 permits much higher
upstream, so it can be configured to seem symmetrical.
Pricing is, of course, simply what the market will bear, plus a giant
dose of consumer and political stupidity.
- Dan.
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