davePremium,MVM
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 ·Verizon FiOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to gwion
Re: A good analysis, but misses a MAJOR point... 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. |
