More symmetry will happen when the home user does more things that care about symmetry. It's a simple allocation of spectrum (whether wireless, DSL or cable). MHz for upload are taken out of MHz for download.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce H McIntosh" <b...@ufl.edu> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 11:03:35 AM Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality On 2015-02-27 11:45, Mike Hammett wrote: > What about ISPs that aren't world-class dicks? > 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? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce H. McIntosh b...@ufl.edu Senior Network Engineer http://net-services.ufl.edu University of Florida Network Services 352-273-1066
