Our Internet here in rural Idaho is symmetrical. Its our local ISP's
wireless service, the DSL here is asymmetrical though, but that doesn't
matter as we cant get DSL at our house, but people no more than a quarter
of a mile away can.
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:22:11 -0600, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
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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