symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

[nanog at ics-il.net (Mike Hammett)]

20 years ago was into AOL's prime, so yes they did. 

Great, let's re-evaluate the system when demand necessitates it. For many systems, it's literally as simple as changing how many channels are allocated to what directions. 

By that logic, we would have been running 486s with 32 gigs of RAM because some people today use that much. *shakes head* Obviously the majority of the dissent here works with OPM. 




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----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael Thomas" <mike at mtcc.com> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 10:53:35 AM 
Subject: Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality] 


On 02/28/2015 08:20 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> I use Skype regularly. It doesn't require 10 megabits. 
> 
> No, I didn't forget about them. There's simply not that many of them. 
> 
> No game requires significant amounts of upload. 
> 
> I forgot nothing and none of what you presented changes my statement in any material manner. 
> 

20 years ago, your standard consumer didn't use the internet either so 
there definitely no business case for anything other than POTS. 

Mike