Re: What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19946603 en Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:31:58 EDT Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:31:58 EDT Re: What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19951520 Skippy25 : A 1mb connection for VNC is plenty.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19951520 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:42:42 EDT Re: What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946866 Dogfather : Slingbox.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946866 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:12:22 EDT Re: What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946603 anon : and video chat. Video iChat at 1600kbps is really really nice!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946603 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:42:00 EDT Re: What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946152 N O Y B :
And multi-GB video uploads.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946152 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:19:05 EDT Re: What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946022 blips :
said by t0KE See Profile :

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!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19946022 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:56:52 EDT What's so strange about top-heavy tiers like 100Mbps/2Mbps? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19945923 t0KE : 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?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,19945923 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:36:30 EDT