Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > Eli Marmor wrote: > > > > Upstream! > > Upstream! > > You forgot to report the upstream bandwidth! > > Based upon ftp'ing a some files I had available: > (note that the connection I used is capable of 26 kbytes per second max) > > Small file: > > 619.56 kB 10.96 kB/s > > ...
Bad. Very bad. Contrary to Bezeq, who makes its big money out of frame-relay and Sifranet, CATV doesn't dacrifice any source of income by giving high upstream bandwidth. A higher upstream, could bring many customers to the CATV, at the expense of the users of ADSL. Moreover, this way the CATV can fight Bezeq and hurt it, in its sensitive pocket. And the ISP's would join such a deal happily, because the upstream costs are much lower for them than the downstream costs. I have no explanation why the CATV followed Bezeq's bandwidths, instead of giving lower downstream and higher upstream (or even symmetric in both directions), which Bezeq wouldn't be able to fight. The CATV could even launch an extra-premium deal that gives 256Kb upstream (or even 512Kb) for a price which is a little higher than ADSL, but much lower than FR/Sifranet. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
