errr....we were referring to the 128k uplink cap in general.

Russell Nelson wrote:

> Bill Northrup writes:
>  > They don't want you running a large for profit website (large, lots of
>  > traffic) on residential services as they are oversubscribed to bring you
>  > that cheap bandwidth. Also it has to do with large network packet flow
>  > patterns. I don't have the time to get in depth on the last one.
>
> Bzzzzt, wrong, thanks for playing, next contestant.  Cable companies
> use asymmetric simply because their uplink is limited to a single
> 6Mbps TV channel.  All the hardware and all the standards (and
> especially, all the amplifiers) were predicated on interactive TV.
> Huge data flows into the house, weenie teenie data flows out.
>
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