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davidhoffman
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join:2009-11-19
Warner Robins, GA

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Re: [NV] Cox speed vs competition vs cost (Cox is slow)

50/20 would be nice. A coworker, who use to design networks, told me that one possible problem with large upload to download speed ratios is that they can lead to a lot of unnecessary packet resend requests. So the ISP, by not keeping the ratio of download to upload speed at approximately 3 or less, is creating unnecessary and avoidable network traffic.
nickphx
join:2009-10-29
Phoenix, AZ

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nickphx

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I think your co-worker was confused... The usage patterns of the common household are heavy on the download.. Netflix , facebook, youtube, streaming audio.. Out bound connection requests are very small, so small in fact that your upstream limit could be 1/10th of the downstream limit and still not cause problems...

Also the cable modem handles the bandwidth limitation. So there's really no "unnecessary" network traffic because of the rate limiting. When you've hit your QoS that's set by the configuration file on the modem, the modem simply "delays" that traffic until it can fit it within the allowed limits. Your traffic doesn't make it past the cable modem to the rest of the network until the modem allows it.