Commercial sites don't have those limitations for the most part. If you're looking at a Yahoo or a YouTube, you'll pull the full benefit of Insight's 20.0 (less latency and load from other users; if there were a YouTube server in town, you'd likely get the full 20, but realistically you'll get around 15 or 16 for a California server and more like 10 for an overseas server). On the other hand, if you're doing a peer-to-peer with another Insight user, you won't get data any faster than what they can upload, which is a lot less than 20. Since more people than not do more of their surfing than not on larger commercial sites with multiple servers feeding fat pipes, there's a pretty good chance they'll derive at least some benefit from the added speed.
On Apr 19, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Profile wrote: > Insight continues to offer the 20 mpm speed for the $20.00 increase > in cost, and I know it works but I am puzzled as to how. Upload > speeds are so much slower, even with a T-1 or another higher speed > that a company may offer, how does the end user reap the benefit of > the double speed when there are these caps on what a server can send? > > Is there a limit where the upload speeds could not keep up with the > download, 40 or 50 mpm? I know there must be a simple answer. > > John > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be April 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be April 22 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
