Jack, I don't know what manufacturer you might be thinking of, but from a standards point of view ADSL2 and ADSL2+ both have faster upstream speeds than ADSL (G.dmt or T1.413)
- ANSI T1.413 Issue 2 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_T1.413_Issue_2>, up to 8 Mbit/s and 1 Mbit/s - G.dmt <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.992.1>, ITU-T G.992.1, up to 10 Mbit/s and 1 Mbit/s - G.lite <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.992.2>, ITU-T G.992.2, more noise and attenuation resistant than G.dmt, up to 1,536 kbit/s and 512 kbit/s - Asymmetric digital subscriber line 2 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_line_2> (ADSL2), ITU-T G.992.3, up to 12 Mbit/s and 3.5 Mbit/s - Asymmetric digital subscriber line 2 plus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_digital_subscriber_line_2_plus> (ADSL2+), ITU-T G.992.5, up to 24 Mbit/s and 3.5 Mbit/s Scott Helms Vice President of Technology ZCorum (678) 507-5000 -------------------------------- http://twitter.com/kscotthelms -------------------------------- On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Jack Bates <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/27/2015 11:03 AM, Bruce H McIntosh wrote: > >> >> The REAL evil in the ISP marketplace is, of course, essentially entirely >> unremarked-upon - ASYMMETRY. For the Internet, as such, truly to live up >> to its promise to continue to revolutionize the world through free exchange >> of ideas, information, data and so forth, Joe Average User *MUST* have the >> same pipes going UP as he does coming DOWN. Just as an example, my service >> at home is what, 50 down/5 up? That structure is less conducive to free >> interchange and more conducive to the Big-Brother™-seal-of-approval >> mindless consumption of whatever content THEY™ deem necessary and >> sufficient to keep the bread and circus masses dull and uninvolved. Plus, >> the slow uplink speeds make remote backups dreadfully impractical for the >> home user. So let's see some symmetry in the offerings, ISPs, ok? >> >> > I'm all for this, except many technologies don't allow for it. Even if > they did, you might see a lot less down in exchange for that upload. That > may be fine for some, but would be undesired by others. > > I laugh every time I see a billboard locally that says, "Enjoy your free > speed upgrade". They switched all their customers from ADSL to ADSL2 and > gave them a slight download increase. Of course, ADSL2 has a slower upload > limit. 500k may not seem a lot, but when you only had 1.5m to begin with, > it's a considerable amount. > >
