[141882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Jun 13 12:54:59 2011
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:54:48 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4DF48549.1090501@bowenvale.co.nz>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/12/11 2:22 AM, Don Gould wrote:
> 100mbit is not luxury, it's something my business needs all it's
> customers to have to drive more uptake of my services.
>
> My customers already have 10/1 today. Now I need them to have 100/40 so
> they have a reason to buy other CPE that in turn drives my business.
>
I have to ask, why not just give them symmetric speeds? I understand
there are technical reasons why on DSL and cable you end up with
asymmetric, but those don't apply to Ethernet delivery.
~Seth
