| Higher upstreams are available, if you want to pay SBC and RR both offer higher upload speeds, at a cost.
Problem is, when p2p software became common, you get about 5% of your customers who run 100% upload 24 hours a day. The nature of their usage makes them more sensitive to even brief outages during normal maintenance hours.
Wholesale bandwidth also costs money. A big ISP can get down into the $100/mb range. So if you're selling a customer 1mb of bandwidth for $50 a month, and it's costing you $100 a month....
Long story short, you can have upload caps, or you can have restricted bandwidth, or you can pay for the level of service you want.
Of course, RR has to be feeling some heat from SBC's $14.99/month DSL offer, and upping standard customers to 5down/768up would be a good way to demonstrate the advantage of staying with the more expensive service that RR offers *HINT HINT HINT* |
