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Post by Skaggs on Nov 19, 2009 12:17:05 GMT -5
The upload speed is critical is you have a SlingBox.
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Post by hurnik on Nov 19, 2009 16:57:10 GMT -5
Yes, that would be a factor. Personally I've never cared to watch TV on my laptop/computer, but that's me.
TTG is useful for burning to DVD however.
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Post by Chris Miller on Nov 19, 2009 17:04:39 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with net neutrality, that's another beast altogether. It's asymmetric because they have X amount of bandwidth and they want to get the most use out of it. Since people download more than they upload, a higher percentage of the available bandwidth is allocated for the downstream than for the upstream. That allows them to share the pipe with more users. If you have 20/20, you are are potentially using 40mbs. You can be uploading and downloading at the same time. For typical residential use, most of the 20mbs upload bandwidth will be wasted. I mean the whole idea of having such a terribly low upload speed is basically made up. The internet works both ways, it is one "pipe" so in the real world you can have as much download as upload but if you can upload as fast as you can download then things like torrents work much better so they chop it way down to discourage that sort of thing. So basically everyone with RR should have 20/20 instead of 20/1. So much for net neutrality. |
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