On Friday 24 September 2004 06:57, Scott Harney wrote: > > Shannon Roddy wrote: > > > > 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. >
256k? They doubled the speed from a dismal 30 kilo-bytes/second to 60 kilo-bytes/second. Yes, I just tested it again to verify. I don't think this is a technical issue at all. At Home did just fine without crimps, despite Napster and the Windoze worms of the day. What's changed between then and now? What kind of technical issues drove them to dhcp instead of simpler static ip addresses? How about port blocking? Looks to me like Cox has had to bow to other, stronger interests. I'll take what I can get because there are no alternatives. That's the bad part.
