[178715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lamar Owen)
Mon Mar 2 18:40:48 2015
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Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 18:40:48 -0500
From: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6D91D962-9FE6-41CC-AC36-8446E435A3FC@delong.com>
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On 03/02/2015 03:31 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 08:28 , Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu> wrote:
>>
>> ...it would be really nice to have 7Mb/s up for just a minute or ten=20
>> so I can shut the machine down and go to bed.=20
> How much of your downstream bandwidth are you willing to give up in ord=
er to get that?
>
> Let=E2=80=99s say your current service is 10Mbps/512Kbps. Would you be w=
illing to switch to 3Mbps/7Mbps in order to achieve what you want?
>
> What about 5.25Mbps/5.25Mbps? (same total bandwidth, but split symmetri=
cally)?
Any of those would be nice. Nicer would be something adaptive, but=20
that's a pipe dream, I know. I'm aware of the technological limitations=20
of ADSL, especially the crosstalk and power limitations, how the=20
spectrum is divided, etc.
The difference between 10/.5 and 5.25/5.25 on the download would be=20
minimal (half as fast); on the upload, not so minimal (ten times=20
faster). But even a 'less asymmetrical' connection would be better than=20
a 20:1 ratio. 4:1 (with 10Mb/s aggregate) would be better than 20:1.
