[nylug-talk] [kevin.mark at verizon.net: FIOS is your neighborhood?]

[Antony P Joseph]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 17:33 -0400, jh wrote:
> Ajai Khattri wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, jh wrote:
> > 
> >> Upload speeds on that are terrible - 1Mbps? Awful, and not competitive 
> >> for their pricing.
> > 
> > True, but to put this into some perspective: their previous plans had 384K 
> > or 768K upload speeds. We're talking about ADSL not SDSL...
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm looking at it in a relative sense. I currently have 3Mbps/768K 
> service - it is roughly 4:1. The ADSL2+ is 8:1, up to 15:1 in 
> upload/download disparity.
I want to bring the type of applications people use in the picture.
Usually web requests are much smaller than web response. 15:1 is highly
justifiable in that situation. If you are using p2p, the story is
different.

With regards
Antony