It looks like a tit-for-tat slow-crawl to higher speeds -- as is happening now with the cable cos. speeding-up to catch the latest DSL speeds. At this rate it looks like incremental speed wars every couple 'o years might get us up to 20mbs in maybe 6-8 years.
I started out on DSL in 1999 at 768kbs -- @Home was 3mbs -- Cable slowed us down to 1.5bs -- DSL now leads at 6mbs -- with Cable starting to match it. About a 6X speed increase over a 5 year period.
SpitefulCrow Insert Witty Tag Here Premium join:2003-06-04 Berkeley, CA
Except that cable can continue to go higher when current ADSL is going to stop at 8Mbit/1Mbit. I am not an expert on the various types of head-end equipment for xDSL or cable, but I'm guessing it's easier to split nodes to increase available bandwidth for all the users than it is to replace all of the headend equipment on a DSL system. -- Powered by Optimum Online First rule of fiber optics: you do not talk about fiber optics
