| upon review After reading other posts I decided to add a few things:
1) look at the increase in the difference between upload and download. Ignoring the more upload intensive internet usage, the more you download, the more you will have to upload so that you get your downloads, yet upload speeds do note nicely increase with download, except for a few places I know of offering symmetrical service.
2) while symmetrical may not be needed for most people, there are few that are doing heavy uploading and the trend is going to increase. video chat, online gaming, voip phones, all use more upload than the old fashioned browsing, IRC, or telnet
3) while somethings cannot be mirrored, what can, should. Your VPN connection and other server connections need to trverse the whole backbone, common pages / videos should be cached on the local ISP side. First, the isp uses less of their backbone connection because instead of 100 or more requests per minute for the same info there is only one to update the cache on heir server. Second, because it stays for the most part within your local ISP, you enjoy better speeds. Sadly this works for only a few of web 2.0 and will work for less of the web 3.0 items. I am sure the major websites wouldn't mind the lower costs (not having to expand their bandwidth capacity) while having the links that keep them running still being clicked on.
4) In the end, the biggest problem facing bandwidth is compromised computers. Think of the spam sending zombies and those who cite that about 90% of the email traversing the web to mail servers and then to peoples computers is spam... I have seen what an infected computer does to people's upload bandwidth. It gets pegged. A safe network is a healthy network... healthy network is a fast network |
