From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 00:38:54 MDT
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Alfio Puglisi wrote:
> I routinely got 100 KB/s on my DSL, and that was the cheap one. After
> the dot-com bomb (some effects also here), I have a 30 KB/s line and
> I'm hitting the limiter all the time, so there's no bandwith shortage.
Actually, it's the uplink bandwidth that matters here, since you're
sending, not receiving. SDSL has not been rolled out widely, and it's
mostly cable modems which offer you more or less symmetrical bandwidth.
The current Internet is still largely a producer/consumer model. It's a
tree, not a mesh. The residential links are assymetric, because the
assumption is the residents never generate more outgoing traffic than the
normal download requires (about 1:10).
Old habits die slow.
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