On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 02:41:30PM -0500, Fletcher Kittredge wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog@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 mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin