[95244] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Tue Mar 13 12:24:48 2007
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
To: "'Jack Bates'" <jbates@brightok.net>,
"'Jeff Shultz'" <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
Cc: "'NANOG list'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <45F6CBD0.8020401@brightok.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:15:17 -0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Someone please tell me there's a valid reason
> why the
> download range couldn't be variable and negotiated
There are several valid reasons, but with newer modulations more
bandwidth upstream is more and more of a reality. Now if we could
just turn off ISDN and POTS (and other random crazy PTT legacy)
we'd have tons more! Copper has a long way to go bandwidth wise.
Regards,
Neil.
