Shannon Roddy wrote:
>> They told us we were on the medimum level and we have 5megs of upload and 
>> download speed. 
> 
> 
> Um... better check those numbers.  From what I understand, you still
> are at around 256k upload.  Only the dowload speed increased.  This is
> what ticks me off about most broadband providers, they KILL you on the
> upload.  Makes doing things like remote X sessions suck.

Actually they increased upload to 512K.  With a little traffic shaping 
                                                          things work 
pretty well for me anyway -- The doubling of the upstream 
                                              was noticable.  In current 
revisions of DOCSIS, if they gave every 
                               customer a symmetric 5M (or even 2M) you 
wouldn't have any service at 
                 all.  There is not nearly as much RF bandwidth 
available on the upstream 
           and that engineering problem drives the decision-making on 
upload caps.

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