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 gwionwild colonial boyPremium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1 | A good analysis, but misses a MAJOR point... ... that being that, due to the nature of TCP-IP communications, you simply can not support a 3, 6, more meg downstream pipeline on a 128k upstream pipe. Period.
I can affirm from our experience in the Verizon forum that uploads ARE critical to the more tech-savvy users, and it's not always because they want to do a lot of "uploading." They game, use their connection for business... sure, they have a lot of legitimate uses for actual "uploading," but a lot are just looking for a "reasonable" ratio upstream for their download speeds.
... and the remaining question, what do people upload? As I've already noted in Verizon... every e-mail attachment, every photo you want to share, here, in Digital Imaging... every attachment you make to your posts... not to mention a lawyer, for example, who needs to get the closing documents to the realtor by 7 am. from home, every architect who needs to work on a large DXF file at home, then get it back to the office or the client... it most assuredly isn't just P2P and filesharing and gamers; this is about the future of the internet. Those screaming downloads, moreover, are around at the level, now, where most users will never (at current tech levels - remember, VOIP, new technologies, and so forth, will place new demands as time goes by, but for the moment, anyway) fill their downstream pipeline - but they might suffer performance lags, because of delays created by a narrow upstream pipeline. And they'll never fully realize the potential those screaming wide open DL's can offer. Nor will they ever realize the full potential of this great new communications medium, if we treat it as a broadcast medium, instead of what it is... no more or less than a pure communications medium. We need another "broadcast" medium like we need a drain plug in the hull of a dingy. But the internet's promise lies in the fact that it's by design a two way interactive medium that can be used as the user needs to use it.
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There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,That's Ophelia, that Cordelia;Yet they, should the last scene be there,The great stage curtain about to drop,If worthy their prominent part in the play,Do not break up their lines to weep. | |
davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
kudos:7 Reviews:
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| I hate the words "downloading" and "uploading", they have nothing to do with what I'm doing right now, which is sitting here at midnight working (don't ask). I've got a bunch of Xterms up to various computers in the office, a window in to the bugs database, an open editor running locally from which I sometimes save back to disks at work, and this web browser open at DSLR. What's all this "up" and "down" crap?
"Upload" and "download" are terms better suited to some nasty IBM mainframe-centred world (that I thought died in the 1980s).
More to the point, if you call inbound (inbound to the ISP's network) speeds "upload speeds", its true nature is obscured -- which is to say, as gwion points out, you need decent inbound speeds to support moving data outbound. | |
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