> > Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from > > deploying "commercial" services. As were bandwidth caps.
Noooo, it was not. It was a technology issue from the very beginning. Technology limits of coax cable plants even before DOCSIS. Also dslam designs were such that they knew the direction of packets would be based on the need to deliver content. But Byte transfer caps (not bandwidth) were based on the high throughput limits of the C.O. and headend gear together with a marketers ability to over selling to a consumer. Bob Evans
