 tschmidtPremium,MVM
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Re: why does most of the broadband internet has slow upload? said by Hayward: Not really the internet was around for near a DECADE before there was DSL in any significant amount.
I stand by what I posted.
Back when DSL was originally developed, in the late 80's, The Telcos saw ISDN as their digital future, not the Internet. They were slow to the Internet party. DSL was seen as a way to cheaply increase end user ISDN speed over a copper loop so it could support video.
»www.google.com/patents/US4924492
Telcos dusted off DSL for Internet access in response to competitive pressure from the Cable companies rolling out residential Internet access.
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 Hayward K A R - 1 2 0 CPremium
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kudos:1 | But DSL was not widely deployed until around 2000, in fact this site only came about in 1998 as I recall... with a very small user base until again about 2000.
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tschmidtPremium,MVM
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| said by Hayward:But DSL was not widely deployed until around 2000, in fact this site only came about in 1998 as I recall... with a very small user base until again about 2000.
Exactly my point.
ISDN never became mainstream. The Telcos grudging re-purposed DSL to complete with Cable and gave up on ISDN.
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kudos:1 | OK but actually other than maybe major metro areas Cable HSI was many years behind DSL.
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 Wily_OnePremium
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San Jose, CA | reply to tschmidt
Ironically, I actually had ISDN to my house circa 2000-2001, and used it to get to the Internet. (128 Kbps rocked for Half-Life Deathmatch! Especially when everyone else was on dial-up...  )
Getting back on topic, while expensive, ISDN was symmetric at least. |
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 DraimanLet me see those devil horns in the sky
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said by tschmidt:said by Hayward:But DSL was not widely deployed until around 2000, in fact this site only came about in 1998 as I recall... with a very small user base until again about 2000.
Exactly my point. ISDN never became mainstream. The Telcos grudging re-purposed DSL to complete with Cable and gave up on ISDN. /tom ISDN never became mainstream for CONSUMERS. It was extremely popular and mainstream for business.
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Hayward K A R - 1 2 0 CPremium
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kudos:1 | And there was also SDSL (same speed up/dn) but doesn't seem to be offered to consumers anymore, though may still be an option for business accounts where there is the seen need for large upload bandwidth for video conferencing, biz file exchange, etc.
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