| Increasing speed is a good strategy DSL speed is limited by distance to customer. Cable speed is rather arbitrary. So why cap at exactly 1.5mb/s? To make DSL look good? Raising the cap to 2mb/s or more should be a no-brainer. |
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| While Comcast advertises 1500 kbps, their caps for standard service have been at 1800 kbps for some time now. Cable speeds are more likely based on local network capacity / number of users / assumed peak load model than being totally arbitrary. Raising the download caps may be easy if there is spare bandwidth on the local download channels. It creates other issues if the system is already running near capacity.
The upload side is an entirely different animal.
Distance limitations for DSL depend entirely on whether a customer is off of a CO or a RT. |
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| "Distance limitations for DSL depend entirely on whether a customer is off of a CO or a RT."
I don't see why. Whether you're connected to a CO or RT, you can be close (high speed potential) or distant (low speed potential). |
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