On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 02:41:30PM -0500, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > > The most important point is yes, that no one cares. If people wanted it, > > it would be sold to them. End. of. story. > > > I will repeat myself, speaking very slowly. Please see original message for > citations. > > Verizon has eight million FIOS customers. As of last year, Verizon decided > it was worth it to supply all of those customers with symmetric speeds. So, > by your reasoning, people wanted it, so it was sold to them. > > Verizon is only one of many fiber-based ISPs selling symmetric speeds.
What Fletcher Wrote, in spades. I will wager that most residential customers have never heard of symmetric speeds. I also will wager that they would like to be able to send large mail faster, upload to Yahoo! and other web hosting services faster, and so on. I know that *this* particular Cox Business customer would like faster uplink speeds, and doesn't see 20 MBps in either direction on the best days; since this is the threshold for "broadband" according to Uncle Charlie, Cox is not providing me "broadband" service. Before I got into this, I "owned" large to very large IBM mainframe computers. There *always* was latent demand for bigger and faster, much the same way an Interstate highway, on the day it is opened for service, is *always* over its design capacity immediately, on the day it is opened. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin
