t0KE
join:2003-07-03
| What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps?
This is as much for the poster Karl as everyone.
The article mentions this will be available for 112,000 Laval Homes and presumably the ones in Asia are also homes.
What can a residential customer do, within their ISP's AUP, to warrant more upstream? Outside of hosting game servers, which might not be permitted in all ISP AUPs, upstream is for sending DNS requests, HTTP GETs and SMTP; nothing terribly bandwidth intensive, even for the most robust www sites.
P2P is obviously the driver to consider this "Strange". Should ISPs bend to the demands of P2P and their users, or should ISPs offer whatever they want to offer and let folks decide what they want to buy? |
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blips
join:2001-04-17
Addison, IL
| said by t0KE  :What can a residential customer do, within their ISP's AUP, to warrant more upstream? Outside of hosting game servers, which might not be permitted in all ISP AUPs, upstream is for sending DNS requests, HTTP GETs and SMTP; nothing terribly bandwidth intensive, even for the most robust www sites. Online backups is one thing but what I really want fast upstream for is when I VPN in to my local network and try to control my home computer with VNC. It is brutally slow. I need more upstream!! |
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St. John 3.16
join:2005-12-15
Forest Grove, OR |
And multi-GB video uploads.
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jb
@roche.com | and video chat. Video iChat at 1600kbps is really really nice!! |
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Dogfather
Premium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to t0KE
Slingbox. |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO | reply to blips
A 1mb connection for VNC is plenty. |
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