said by fiberguy :

A waste? to you? yes.. to those that operate the business? no. Truth is, and most people don't want to see this or accept it, but the majority of people download, not upload.

-Agree

1.5 isn't the greatest, but it's better than 384 or 512.

-Agree, the higher the better

What would be "not a waste" to you? and answer it in two ways..

1) Answer it as yourself based on your end use
2) Answer it as if you were the CTO of the company providing the service.

-Honestly I would love to have faster speeds, because right now my so called 10/500k sucks. I can tell when someone is using the internet (my brother gaming on the other computer) or on our Vonage phone. My web pages load terribly slow. Not so slow but to me definately noticeable. Maybe its because I'm a techy and I just notice things like that and they bug me, I dunno. If I were the CTO of the company then I say if you got it then use it. Who knows people and I'm talking big businesses may want and pay for it. You never know unless you try, but in Telecom Corporate America the big ISP's think they know whats best for you. I just don't want them to make those decisions.

If it were me? I'd like to see them push out at 2 or 5.. but right now, *at this time* if I were running a business and taking into account ALL aspects and sides of the issue, I wouldn't be jumping out of my seat to do a 50/50 or 100/100 plan right now.. just not cost effective in this country.. and especially in pre-cert gear.

-Basically my point is it just looks a little wierd to have that much speed and a small chunk of it upload, I mean look at it on a bar graph it would look silly. About the cost, the reason it is so high is because they don't sell that gear to make money back to pay for it so that manufacturing costs can go down.