> From the consumer standpoint, I *really* don't think it's too much to ask > that when I have the occasional 10 gig image to upload that it takes me << > than a full day. This has nothing really to do with symmetry, per se. It's > the need to adapt to what the traffic is *actually* doing at peak times, > regardless of the average up/down byte count.
When I was a COX customer they took the average upstream traffic. Thus I could burst over the upstream limit, for a while, but not a long while. They would eventually clamp me. Gary
