I’ve read some recent mailing list comments that were complaining about the huge differences in upload and download speeds in residential Internet service pacakges from cable companies and phone (DSL) companies.
The writers always point to the ISP’s commercial package offerings as proof that “they could give us highspeed uploads, too, if they chose.”
Unfortunately, though, the writers aren’t considering that there are technological forces at work, not just the marketing plans of the Internet service providers.
Many times, the complainers wish to host their own web servers on their residential ISP service, or they want to be able to upload data (video, audio) to others via some type of server (peer-to-peer or other) or even to upload large quantities of data to online backup services.
Of course, they want to do this on their cheap residential service…
Continue reading Cable and DSL Speeds – What’s wrong with this picture?
