On the downlink. On the uplink the speed is typically 1/10 of that as the providers have found yet another excuse for charging their customers extra if they want symmetric service.
Not really. Most of the traffic is server to client, not vice-versa. It's a well accepted transport architecture. France Telecom/Orange is widely regarded as being one of the highest market penetration providers in Europe, yet they are mostly ADSL. Asymmetric, in other words, not SDSL.
http://www.orange.com/en_EN/group/ If I want to do server to server, symmetric makes sense. I have a product line for that, at any speed you like. But if I know from experience that upstream is a creek and downstream is a river, normal in a client/server model, why would I build out what I know from traffic analysis is going to be unused capacity? I mean, it's easy to say that bandwidth is cheap, but not if you're in the business of building the infrastructure. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20001377-266.html So, some ups and some downs. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
