Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-05-04 Thread rdrake
On 03/03/2015 08:07 AM, Scott Helms wrote: I'm not done collecting all of our data yet, but just looking at what we have right now (~17,000 APs) over half of the clients connected have an upload rate of 5mbps or less. A just over 20% have an average upload rate of 1mbps. BTW, the reason we're w

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-04-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
I wasn't being funny. :-) That was about a quarter to a third of a /wonderful/ #takethat to the *AA... On April 23, 2015 10:17:51 AM EDT, Ray Soucy wrote: >Sorry, I know I get long-winded. That's why I don't post as much as I >used >to. ;-) > >On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Jay Ashworth wro

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-04-23 Thread Ray Soucy
Sorry, I know I get long-winded. That's why I don't post as much as I used to. ;-) On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > There's an op-ed piece in this posting, Ray. Do you want to write it, or > should I? > > :-) > > > On April 23, 2015 10:06:42 AM EDT, Ray Soucy wrote: >> >

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-04-23 Thread Jay Ashworth
There's an op-ed piece in this posting, Ray. Do you want to write it, or should I? :-) On April 23, 2015 10:06:42 AM EDT, Ray Soucy wrote: >It's amazing, really. > >Netflix and YouTube now overtake BitTorrent and all other file sharing >peer-to-peer traffic combined, even on academic networks,

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-04-23 Thread Ray Soucy
It's amazing, really. Netflix and YouTube now overtake BitTorrent and all other file sharing peer-to-peer traffic combined, even on academic networks, by order(s) of magnitude. The amount of peer-to-peer traffic is not even significant in comparison. It might as well be IRC from our perspective.

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-04-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Frank Bulk" > Those are measured at the campus boundary. I don't have visibility inside > the school's network to know who much intra-campus traffic there may be . > but we know that peer-to-peer is a small percentage of overall Internet > traffic flows, and

RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-04-21 Thread Frank Bulk
k From: James R Cutler [mailto:james.cut...@consultant.com] Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 8:51 AM To: Frank Bulk Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] Frank, Are your measurements taken at the campus boundary or within the camp

RE: Unlawful transfers of content and transfers of unlawful content (was:Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality)

2015-03-12 Thread Donald Kasper
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:48:31 -0400 > From: lo...@pari.edu > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Unlawful transfers of content and transfers of unlawful content > (was:Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality) > > On 02/27/2015 02:14 PM, Jim Richardson wrote: > >

Unlawful transfers of content and transfers of unlawful content (was:Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality)

2015-03-12 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/27/2015 02:14 PM, Jim Richardson wrote: What's a "lawful" web site? Paragraphs 304 and 305 in today's released R&O address some of this. The wording 'Unlawful transfers of content and transfers of unlawful content' is pretty good, and covers what the Commission wanted to cover.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Barry Shein
Not a problem, the discussion was getting a bit out of hand so misunderstandings are unsuprising. Thank you for adding your expertise and experiences. -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Mar 10, 2015, at 06:21 , Kelly Setzer wrote: > > Many other organizations who were innovating will be affected by the new > rules. Many of those organizations are very small and cannot afford the > army of lawyers that Verizon can. Such as? Can you provide any actual examples of harmful e

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Scott Helms
Barry, First, I want to apologize. I (badly) misread your email, but in case I should not have responded that way. I would have gotten this out sooner, but I was traveling back from the CableLabs conference. Second, my assertion is simply that Usenet servers aren't automagically symmetrical in

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Kelly Setzer
Many other organizations who were innovating will be affected by the new rules. Many of those organizations are very small and cannot afford the army of lawyers that Verizon can. Judgements as to whether Net Neutrality helps or harms any specific industry will be inevitably guided by politics. T

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-09 Thread list_nanog
They want to bang on about the ruling harming innovation and competition. My response: "Well, you were neither innovating nor competing as is, so no harm done."

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-07 Thread James R Cutler
Frank, Are your measurements taken at the campus boundary or within the campus network? I remember the confusion when Centrex was first introduced at UMich. The statistic there that confounded was call durations wildly exceeding models, but mostly within the campus, not to the outside world. C

RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-06 Thread Frank Bulk
olicy Statement on Net Neutrality] Averages hide the peak demands. The last mile should handle the peak demands. Further upstream you get the over subscription savings. Looking at averages and saying that they define the needs limits is *bad* engineering. For POTS you would get a few hertz i

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-04 Thread Dave Taht
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 04/03/2015 16:26, Dave Taht wrote: >> A geeky household with dad doing skype, mom uploading to facebook, a >> kid doing a game, and another kid doing netflix, however, is common. >> And, it is truly amazing how many households have more tha

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-04 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 04/03/2015 16:26, Dave Taht wrote: > A geeky household with dad doing skype, mom uploading to facebook, a > kid doing a game, and another kid doing netflix, however, is common. > And, it is truly amazing how many households have more than one device > per person nowadays. and $kid running a bit

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-04 Thread Dave Taht
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Scott Helms wrote: >> >> I don't know many schools that are open at midnight to accept thumb >> drives. > > I think he was trying to point out that most school libraries, and their > computer labs, open before classes start. Ice never heard of a school > deadline t

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-04 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Chuck Church wrote: > Since this has turned into a discussion on upload vs download speed, > figured I'd throw in a point I haven't really brought up. For the most part, > uploading isn't really a time-sensitive activity to the general (as in 99% of > th

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On 03/03/2015 08:07 AM, Scott Helms wrote: For consumers to care about symmetrical upload speeds as much as you're saying why have they been choosing to use technologies that don't deliver that in WiFi and LTE? For consumers to have choice, there must be an available alternative that is affordab

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Scott Helms writes: > > I don't know many schools that are open at midnight to accept thumb > > drives. > > I think he was trying to point out that most school libraries, and their > computer labs, open before classes start. Ice never heard of a school > deadline that was actually

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Barry Shein
From: Scott Helms > >/em shrug > >I can't help it if you don't like real world data. >On Mar 3, 2015 2:25 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: > >> >> Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you >> were asserting. Generally when someone says they don't understand me I assume it's my

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Scott Helms
/em shrug I can't help it if you don't like real world data. On Mar 3, 2015 2:25 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: > > Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you > were asserting. > > From: Scott Helms > >Odd how the graphing for the top 1000 Usenet servers showed exactly the >

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Barry Shein
Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you were asserting. From: Scott Helms >Odd how the graphing for the top 1000 Usenet servers showed exactly the >pattern I predicted. >On Mar 2, 2015 3:46 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: > >> >> > Anything based on NNTP would be extremely

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Colin Johnston
fttc in uk works great for client code push remote installs , even faster than some offices since the fibre nodes are less contended. seen 18mb up work fine and sustained with voip in parallel as well colin Sent from my iPhone On 3 Mar 2015, at 16:20, Tim Franklin wrote: >> I meant that on the

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Tim Franklin
> I meant that on the Internet as a whole it is unusual for such speeds to > actually be realized in practice due to various issues. > > 8-10Mb/s seems to be what one can expect without going to distributed > protocols. Really? I have 2 x VDSL (40/10) to my house, running MLPPP. I can get a su

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-03 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/2/2015 11:14 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: If the network supported it this would be typical of a household with teenagers. People adapt their usage to the constraints presented. That doesn't mean they are necessarially happy with the constraints. Don't take lack of complaints as indicating peop

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-03 Thread Tei
imho this two staments are true: - tomorrow a new product or service on the Internet can completely change the ratio download/upload - most probably, this will not happen It may take a few days (hours for early adopters) for a new service to become popular on the Internet, that make a intensive us

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-03 Thread Scott Helms
> > I don't know many schools that are open at midnight to accept thumb > drives. I think he was trying to point out that most school libraries, and their computer labs, open before classes start. Ice never heard of a school deadline that was actually in the middle of the night, so if you're work

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <54f57656.2010...@satchell.net>, Stephen Satchell writes: > On 03/02/2015 09:14 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Just tell that to your child that has to submit a assignment before > > midnight or get zero on 20% of the year's marks. There are plenty > > of cases where uploads are time crit

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-03 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 03/02/2015 09:14 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > Just tell that to your child that has to submit a assignment before > midnight or get zero on 20% of the year's marks. There are plenty > of cases where uploads are time critical there are also time where > it really doesn't matter. That's what USB th

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
That's fine and very practical and understandable. But it's no reason for the net not to keep marching forward at its own pace which I think is more what's being discussed. I'm pretty sure that prior to 2007 (year of the first iphone launch) not many people were clamoring for full, graphical int

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <000101d05567$74b58530$5e208f90$@gmail.com>, "Chuck Church" writes: > Since this has turned into a discussion on upload vs download > speed, figured I'd throw in a point I haven't really brought up. For the > most part, uploading isn't really a time-sensitive activity to the > ge

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread N. Max Pierson
I don't usually chime in on the list, but since this seems to be another hot item, i'll pitch in my $0.005 (since the $$ has been going up these days). IIRC the entire reason we have asymmetry to begin with is because it was created to resolve an issue with older ADSL hardware. I believe the reaso

RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread Chuck Church
Since this has turned into a discussion on upload vs download speed, figured I'd throw in a point I haven't really brought up. For the most part, uploading isn't really a time-sensitive activity to the general (as in 99% of the ) public. Uploading a bunch of facebook photos, you hit up

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Mar 2, 2015, at 15:40 , Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 03/02/2015 03:31 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 08:28 , Lamar Owen wrote: >>> >>> ...it would be really nice to have 7Mb/s up for just a minute or ten so I >>> can shut the machine down and go to bed. >> How much of your do

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On 03/02/2015 03:31 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Mar 2, 2015, at 08:28 , Lamar Owen wrote: ...it would be really nice to have 7Mb/s up for just a minute or ten so I can shut the machine down and go to bed. How much of your downstream bandwidth are you willing to give up in order to get that?

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
On March 1, 2015 at 16:13 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: > On 01/03/2015 03:41, Barry Shein wrote: > > On February 28, 2015 at 23:20 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: > > > there were several reasons for asymmetric services, one of which was > > > commercial. Another was that m

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Barry Shein wrote: > Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without significant > changes to the protocol or human behavior. > > We ran significant Usenet servers with binaries for nearly 20 years and > without for another 5 and the servers' traffic was heavily asymmetric.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
Odd how the graphing for the top 1000 Usenet servers showed exactly the pattern I predicted. On Mar 2, 2015 3:46 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: > > > Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without significant > > changes to the protocol or human behavior. > > > > We ran significant Us

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
> Anything based on NNTP would be extremely asymmetric without significant > changes to the protocol or human behavior. > > We ran significant Usenet servers with binaries for nearly 20 years and > without for another 5 and the servers' traffic was heavily asymmetric. > On Mar 1, 2015 9:11

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Mar 2, 2015, at 08:28 , Lamar Owen wrote: > > On 02/28/2015 05:46 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> Home users should be able to upload a content in the same amount >> of time it takes to download content. > This. > > Once a week I upload a 100MB+ MP3 (that I produced myself, and for which I > o

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
San Jose is most certainly not a pure coax network and is HFC. HSD does mean High Speed Data. On Mar 2, 2015 3:26 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: > Not so sure about that… > > 240.59.103.76.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN PTR > c-76-103-59-240.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. > > is most definitely a business class service

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
Not so sure about that… 240.59.103.76.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN PTR c-76-103-59-240.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. is most definitely a business class service from Comcast. Seems to match the entry for 24.7.48.153 pretty closely. I think the difference is the type of cable network in the particular

Re: FW: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Naslund, Steve wrote: That's simply wrong - at least for folks who do any work related stuff at home. Consider: I've just edited a large sales presentation - say a PPT deck with some embedded video, totaling maybe 250MB (2gbit) - and I want to upload that to the company server. And let's say

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
>Unless there is significant stupidly-done bufferbloat, where the >"insignificant amount of control traffic in the opposite direction" is delayed >because the big blocks of the upload are causing a traffic jam in the upstream >pipe. Which has nothing at all to do with the asymmetry of the circ

FW: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
>That's simply wrong - at least for folks who do any work related stuff at home. > >Consider: I've just edited a large sales presentation - say a PPT deck with >some embedded video, totaling maybe 250MB (2gbit) - and I want to upload that >to the company server. And let's say I want to do that

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Naslund, Steve wrote: Average != Peak. What is peak? There is a question for you. If we get all the way down to the fundamentals of any network, peak is always 100%. There is either a bit on the wire or not. Your network is either 100% busy or 100% idle at any instantaneous moment in time

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 03/02/2015 09:33 AM, Naslund, Steve wrote: > A. Me - "Hey genius, why don't you download a movie about networks > because my upload does not affect your streaming movie download > except for the insignificant amount of control traffic in the > opposite direction." > Unless there is significant

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
On 28-Feb-15 21:55, Barry Shein wrote: > On February 28, 2015 at 17:20 na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote: >> As I said earlier, there are only so many channels available. >> Channels added to upload are taken away from download. People use >> upload so infrequently it would be gross negligence

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
> > >::AWG:: Strawman Alert! > >Nobody's talking about taking poor Erlang behind the barn and shooting him. > >We're talking about being able to send upstream at a reasonable/comparable >rate as downstream. > > >Mike Exactly, now you see the dilemma. What is reasonable/comparable? Is

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
> >It is likely not to change when people don't have the available upload to >begin with. This is compounded by the queue problems on end devices. >How many more people would stream to twitch or youtube or skype if they didn't >have to hear this, "Are you uploading? You're slowing down the downl

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/02/2015 09:20 AM, Naslund, Steve wrote: Average != Peak. What is peak? There is a question for you. If we get all the way down to the fundamentals of any network, peak is always 100%. There is either a bit on the wire or not. Your network is either 100% busy or 100% idle at any inst

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
>Average != Peak. > What is peak? There is a question for you. If we get all the way down to the fundamentals of any network, peak is always 100%. There is either a bit on the wire or not. Your network is either 100% busy or 100% idle at any instantaneous moment in time. What matters is av

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
>> I was an ISP in the 1990s and our first DSL offerings were SDSL >> symmetric services to replace more expensive T-1 circuits. When >> we got into residential it was with SDSL and then the consumers >> wanted more downstream so ADSL was invented. I was there, I >> know th

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/28/2015 07:33 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:34 AM, John R. Levine wrote: [...] Until yesterday, there were no network neutrality rules, not for spam or for anything else. There still aren't any network neutrality rules, until the FCC makes the documents public, which th

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-03-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On 02/28/2015 05:46 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Home users should be able to upload a content in the same amount of time it takes to download content. This. Once a week I upload a 100MB+ MP3 (that I produced myself, and for which I own the copyright) to a cloud server. I have a reasonable ADSL c

RE: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Naslund, Steve
>Can we stop the disingenuity? > >Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from deploying >"commercial" services. As were bandwidth caps. > >One can argue all sorts of other "benefits" of this but when this started that >was the problem on the table: How do we forcibly distin

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Rogers, Josh
G >Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality >Message-ID: <32d3c16d-0f4d-45ba-99f8-d41fe23d4...@mnsi.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >Yes, so when cable modems were introduced to the network, they had to be >designed to work on the EXIST

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
That's certainly true and why we watch the trends of usage very closely and we project those terms into the future knowing that's imperfect. What we won't do is build networks based purely on guesses. We certainly see demand for upstream capacity increasing for residential customers, but that inc

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Mike Hammett
te backup. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com - Original Message - From: "Aled Morris" To: "Scott Helms" Cc: "NANOG" Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 9:17:33 AM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on N

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Aled Morris
On 2 March 2015 at 14:41, Scott Helms wrote: > We see customer usage patterns and satisfaction being statically the same > on 25/25 and 25/8 accounts. The same is true when we look at 50/50 versus > 50/12 accounts. perhaps because there are no widely-deployed applications that are designed wit

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
My apologies for the implication. I meant that on the Internet as a whole it is unusual for such speeds to actually be realized in practice due to various issues. 8-10Mb/s seems to be what one can expect without going to distributed protocols. On 03/02/2015 09:06 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Da

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
Daniel, The sold speeds are all actually less than the actual speeds. The PON customers are slightly over provisioned and the DOCSIS customers are over provisioned a bit more. On Mar 2, 2015 10:01 AM, "Daniel Taylor" wrote: > What do those 25 and 50Mb/s download rates amount to in practice? > >

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
What do those 25 and 50Mb/s download rates amount to in practice? Statistically speaking, those might *be* symmetric. On 03/02/2015 08:41 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Daniel, For the third or fourth time in this discussion we are tracking and customer satisfaction for users who do have symmetrical

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
Daniel, For the third or fourth time in this discussion we are tracking and customer satisfaction for users who do have symmetrical bandwidth >24 mbps and have for a number of years. We see customer usage patterns and satisfaction being statically the same on 25/25 and 25/8 accounts. The same is

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 03/02/2015 06:22 AM, Daniel Taylor wrote: > I'm clearly not a normal user, or I wouldn't be here. > Normal users have never experienced high-speed symmetrical service. > > People don't miss what they have never had. I would agree with that statement in a slightly modified form: "People don't

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Livingood, Jason
Hostnaming is not always straightforward, as there are variations of commercial service (some with static IPs, others with dynamic, some enterprise, branch office, SMB, etc.). FWIW: 24.7.48.153 c-24-7-48-153.hsd1.ca.comcast.net 24.10.217.142 c-24-10-217-142.hsd1.ut.comcast.net

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
I'm clearly not a normal user, or I wouldn't be here. Normal users have never experienced high-speed symmetrical service. People don't miss what they have never had. On 03/02/2015 08:09 AM, Scott Helms wrote: That's not the norm for consumers, but the important thing to understand is that for

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Scott Helms
That's not the norm for consumers, but the important thing to understand is that for most of the technologies we use for broadband there simply is less upstream capacity than downstream. That upstream scarcity means that for DSL, DOCSIS, PON, WiFi, and LTE delivering symmetrical upstream bandwidth

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
On 02/27/2015 04:49 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Scott Helms wrote: "My point is that the option should be there, at the consumer level." Why? What's magical about symmetry? Is a customer better served by having a 5mbps/5mbps over a 25mbps/5mbps? If the option

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Daniel Taylor
Personally? If the price were the same, I'd go with 50/50. That way my uploads would take even less time. It isn't about the averaged total, it's about how long each event takes, and backing up 4GB of files off-site shouldn't have to take an hour. On 02/27/2015 03:11 PM, Scott Helms wrote: D

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:58:34AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > business vs consumer edition products? (that'd be my bet) I think these are all residential customers, as business customers appear to use different subdomains and/or host naming conventions, e.g.: 24.7.48.153 c-24-

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread John Levine
In article <54f3d78a.5080...@satchell.net> you write: >On 03/01/2015 05:53 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> Business customers only get static from Comcast if they pay extra for it. > >That's also true for Charter. I know of one ISP offering DSL that gives >its customers static addresses. Only one. Tha

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 03/01/2015 05:53 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Business customers only get static from Comcast if they pay extra for it. That's also true for Charter. I know of one ISP offering DSL that gives its customers static addresses. Only one. That doesn't mean there aren't more that do.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread joel jaeggli
On 3/1/15 7:24 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott, > > Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between > servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running > locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment? The most densly connected relays

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 03/01/2015 01:44 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > fairly certain that none of these folk block port 25 on their business > customer links. Correct as far as Charter goes. Particularly for people with dedicated IP addresses, as I do. I can't speak for DHCP address space.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread joel jaeggli
On 3/1/15 1:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> It was the combination of asymmetric, no or few IPs (and NAT), and >>> bandwidth caps. >> >> let's not rewrite history here: IPv4 address scarcity has been a thing >> since the very early 1990s. Otherwise why would cidr have been created? > > CIDR had not

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 17:58 , John R. Levine wrote: > >>> As I said above, retail customers. Business customers get static IPs and >>> generaly no blocking. > >> Business customers only get static from Comcast if they pay extra for it. > > I'm in a T-W area, haven't checked Comcast's prices l

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Dave Taht
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> On Mar 1, 2015, at 14:01 , John R. Levine wrote: >> >> Well, actually, it does. Every broadband network in the US >> currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retail customers. > > Unfortunately, that's not entirely

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread John R. Levine
As I said above, retail customers. Business customers get static IPs and generaly no blocking. Business customers only get static from Comcast if they pay extra for it. I'm in a T-W area, haven't checked Comcast's prices lately. But if you don't have a static IP, it's a poor idea to try t

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 14:01 , John R. Levine wrote: > > Well, actually, it does. Every broadband network in the US > currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retail customers. Unfortunately, that's not entirely true. (Very) recent direct-to-MX spam from Comcast

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Livingood, Jason
On 3/1/15, 4:44 PM, "Christopher Morrow" wrote: >>>Unfortunately, that's not entirely true. (Very) recent direct-to-MX >>>spam >>>from Comcast customers: >fairly certain that none of these folk block port 25 on their business >customer links. Bingo! Yes, commercial customers do run mail servers

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread manning bill
Frank was the most vocal… the biggest cidr deployment issue was hardware vendors with “baked-in” assumptions about addressing. IPv6 is doing the same thing with its /64 nonsense. /bill PO Box 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 310.322.8102 On 1March2015Sunday, at 13:37, David Conrad wrote: >> O

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread John R. Levine
Well, actually, it does. Every broadband network in the US currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retail customers. Unfortunately, that's not entirely true. (Very) recent direct-to-MX spam from Comcast customers: Well, it's supposed to be blocked, according to people I've talked

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:25 PM, John Levine wrote: > In article <20150301124846.ga16...@gsp.org> you write: >>On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 08:03:28PM -0500, John R. Levine wrote: >>> Well, actually, it does. Every broadband network in the US >>> currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retai

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread David Conrad
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >>> It was the combination of asymmetric, no or few IPs (and NAT), and >>> bandwidth caps. >> >> let's not rewrite history here: IPv4 address scarcity has been a thing >> since the very early 1990s. Otherwise why would cidr have been created? >

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
>> It was the combination of asymmetric, no or few IPs (and NAT), and >> bandwidth caps. > > let's not rewrite history here: IPv4 address scarcity has been a thing > since the very early 1990s. Otherwise why would cidr have been created? CIDR had nothing to do with address scarcity. CIDR was inv

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread John Levine
In article <20150301124846.ga16...@gsp.org> you write: >On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 08:03:28PM -0500, John R. Levine wrote: >> Well, actually, it does. Every broadband network in the US >> currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retail customers. > >Unfortunately, that's not entirely true.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread John Levine
In article <54f32f1a.9090...@meetinghouse.net> you write: >Scott, > >Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between >servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running >locally - how do you get a high level of asymmetry in a P2P environment? There's always a lo

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hey Barry - you ran some rather huge NNTP servers, back in the day, you have any comments on this? Scott Helms wrote: Miles, Usenet was normally asymmetrical between servers, even when server operators try to seed equally as being fed. It's a function of how a few servers are the source ori

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Dave Taht
I am not normally, willingly, on nanog. My emailbox is full enough. I am responding, mostly, to a post I saw last night, where the author complained about the horrid performance he got when attempting a simultaneous up and download on a X/512k upload DSL link. That is so totally fixable now, at sp

Re: content regulation, was Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 08:03:28PM -0500, John R. Levine wrote: >> Well, actually, it does. Every broadband network in the US >> currently blocks outgoing port 25 connections from retail customers. > > Unfortunately, that's not entirely true.

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 03/01/2015 08:19 AM, Scott Helms wrote: Michael, Then you understand that having the upstreams and downstreams use the same frequencies, especially in a flexible manner, would require completely redesigning every diplex filter, amplifier, fiber node, and tap filters in the plant. At the

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/1/2015 10:01 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: They didn't want to give channels for internet bandwidth either. Life would have been *far* more simple had the MSO's not *forced* the hardware designer to use their crappy noisy back channel, such as it was. The move from analog -- which was happe

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Michael Thomas
t;NANOG" mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality You do of course realize that the asymmetry in

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
and it would have happened. >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: >>>>> >>>>> As I said earlier, there are only so many channels

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Scott Helms
Michael, Then you understand that having the upstreams and downstreams use the same frequencies, especially in a flexible manner, would require completely redesigning every diplex filter, amplifier, fiber node, and tap filters in the plant. At the same time we'd have to replace all of the modems,

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-01 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 01/03/2015 03:41, Barry Shein wrote: > On February 28, 2015 at 23:20 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: > > there were several reasons for asymmetric services, one of which was > > commercial. Another was that most users' bandwidth profiles were massively > > asymmetric to start with so

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