[178567] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Wardell)
Sat Feb 28 17:16:56 2015
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From: "Gary Wardell" <gwardell@gwsystems.co.il>
To: "'Michael Thomas'" <mike@mtcc.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 17:16:03 -0500
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> From the consumer standpoint, I *really* don't think it's too much to =
ask that when I have the occasional 10 gig image to upload that it takes =
me <<=20
> than a full day. This has nothing really to do with symmetry, per se. =
It's the need to adapt to what the traffic is *actually* doing at peak =
times,=20
> regardless of the average up/down byte count.
When I was a COX customer they took the average upstream traffic. Thus =
I could burst over the upstream limit, for a while, but not a long =
while. They would eventually clamp me.
Gary
