[LINK] NBN Wireless?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:24 AM, <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> The 5Mb down speed is quite sufficient to stream Vid
> at reasonable resolution with no buffering. So, it's fine for most locals.
>

Why insist on slower upstream, when that is a legacy of adsl and cable
modem (docsis) technologies which had less frequency spectrum assigned to
the upstream channel than the downstream channel (and in the case of docsis
cable modems, worse as both downstream and upstream channels are shared
with everyone else on the same node) ??

With some fixed-wireless technologies like WiMax (or, I assume LTE) one can
get symmetric bandwidth (same upstream as downstream speeds).

I think symmetric connections are diserable. Otherwise, the isp industry
ends perpetuating the end user´s interest as ´merely donwloader´ or passive
consumers of streams, rather than using broadband to its full potential and
become providers of information and services themselves....

or in the words of a guy named Cerf....

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1016487/home-broadband-customers-are-crippled-vint-cerf-reckons

Same with FTTH down here in .AR. My GPON Huawei ONT (CPE) has a maximum
optical port speed of 2 Gb down, 1 Gb up (2:1 ratio) yet the damn ISP
insists on doing traffic shaping of the port with a 10:1 ratio (10 Mbit
down, 1 Mbit up, and so on as you get to higher speed contracts, always
with a 10:1 ratio), it´s a shame...

Nobody in .au making the case for symmetric bandwidth?
FC

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