Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Bruce H McIntosh <bhm () ufl edu>]

On 2015-02-27 12:27, Naslund, Steve wrote:
> That statement completely confuses me.  Why is asymmetry evil?  Does that not reflect what "Joe Average User" actually needs and 
> wants? The statement that the average users *MUST* have the same pipes going UP as he does going DOWN does not reflect reality at all.  Do 
> a lot of your users want to stream 4K video to their friends UHD TV?  Given that all transmission media has some sort of bandwidth limit it 
> would seem to me that asymmetry is actually more fair for the user since he gets more of what he needs which is download speed.  There is 
> no technical reason that it can't be symmetric it is just a reflection of what the market wants.  As an ISP I can tell you that a lot 
> more people complaint about their download speeds than their upload speeds.  Do you think that you (or the average home user) would be 
> happier with 27.5 down and 27.5 up vs your 50 down and 5 up you have today?  Don't tell me you want 50 down and 50 up because that is 
> a different bandwidth total that requi!
res a fast
er transmission media.
> Do you actually believe that average users are suffering with a 5 mbps upstream?  I don't. I just don't see the average user "freely 
> interchanging ideas" at more than 5 mbps.  I don't feel like "Big Brother" forced me to watch Netflix and my next door neighbor just 
> doesn't provide a lot of engaging HD content that I just must see.

I guess I know more than the "average" number of creative types who 
might be interested in things like video collaboration, music/video 
recording, sharing around large hunks of content to edit/modify/etc., 
and of course my previously mentioned hobby horse, backing it all up in 
a timely manner to someplace maybe not in the path of seasonal 
hurricanes :).

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Bruce H. McIntosh                            bhm () ufl edu
Senior Network Engineer                      http://net-services.ufl.edu
University of Florida Network Services       352-273-1066