As long as we're keeping up this metaphor, P2P is the fat man who says
Guys, according to wikipedia over 70 million people fileshare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_file_sharing That's not the fat man, that's a significant portion of the market. Demand is changing, meet the new needs or die at the hands of your customers. It's not like you have a choice. The equipment makers need to recognize that it's no longer a one size fits all world (where download is the most critical) but instead that the hardware needs to adjust the available bandwidth to accomodate the direction data is flowing at that particular moment. Hopefully some of them monitor this list and are getting ideas for the next generation of equipment. George Roettger Netlink Services