On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Frank Bulk wrote:
I wouldn't mind if upstream utilization matched downstream rates as we're essentially paying for downstream utilization, not upstream. Are there more pieces to the bandwidth puzzle that would start getting messed up if ISPs and end-users were more symmetrical in their usage?
it might also be interesting to know how tcp-stack differences affect some of the usage patterns as well. With the now widely deployed win* platform tcp stach respecting tcp-reno things work according to well understood/accepted models. Mac OSX, linux and Vista seem to NOT respect tcp-reno, and may change the models somewhat... Will this cause more spikiness on individual links? will this change in behaviour on a wide scale (vista rollout to new computers or to existing platforms) causing folks capacity planning models to fail?