I'm clearly not a normal user, or I wouldn't be here.
Normal users have never experienced high-speed symmetrical service.
People don't miss what they have never had.
On 03/02/2015 08:09 AM, Scott Helms wrote:
That's not the norm for consumers, but the important thing to
understand is that for most of the technologies we use for broadband
there simply is less upstream capacity than downstream. That upstream
scarcity means that for DSL, DOCSIS, PON, WiFi, and LTE delivering
symmetrical upstream bandwidth will cost the service provider more
which means at some point it will cost consumers more.
WiFi is a special case, while there is no theoretical reason it must
be asymmetrical but it works that way in practice because dedicated
APs invariably have both higher transmit power and much better antenna
gain. The average AP in the US will put out a watt or more while
clients are putting out ~250 milliwatts and with 0 antenna gain.
On Mar 2, 2015 8:58 AM, "Daniel Taylor" <dtay...@vocalabs.com
<mailto:dtay...@vocalabs.com>> wrote:
Personally?
If the price were the same, I'd go with 50/50.
That way my uploads would take even less time.
It isn't about the averaged total, it's about how long each event
takes, and backing up 4GB of files off-site shouldn't have to take
an hour.
On 02/27/2015 03:11 PM, Scott Helms wrote:
Daniel,
"50MB/s might be tough to fill, but even at home I can get
good use out of the odd 25MB/s upstream burst for a few minutes."
Which would you choose, 50/50 or 75/25? My point is not that
upstream speed isn't valuable, but merely that demand for it
isn't symmetrical and unless the market changes won't be in
the near term. Downstream demand is growing, in most markets
I can see, much faster than upstream demand.
Scott Helms
Vice President of Technology
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