Daniel, For the third or fourth time in this discussion we are tracking and customer satisfaction for users who do have symmetrical bandwidth >24 mbps and have for a number of years.
We see customer usage patterns and satisfaction being statically the same on 25/25 and 25/8 accounts. The same is true when we look at 50/50 versus 50/12 accounts. On Mar 2, 2015 9:22 AM, "Daniel Taylor" <dtay...@vocalabs.com> wrote: > I'm clearly not a normal user, or I wouldn't be here. > Normal users have never experienced high-speed symmetrical service. > > People don't miss what they have never had. > > On 03/02/2015 08:09 AM, Scott Helms wrote: > >> >> That's not the norm for consumers, but the important thing to understand >> is that for most of the technologies we use for broadband there simply is >> less upstream capacity than downstream. That upstream scarcity means that >> for DSL, DOCSIS, PON, WiFi, and LTE delivering symmetrical upstream >> bandwidth will cost the service provider more which means at some point it >> will cost consumers more. >> >> WiFi is a special case, while there is no theoretical reason it must be >> asymmetrical but it works that way in practice because dedicated APs >> invariably have both higher transmit power and much better antenna gain. >> The average AP in the US will put out a watt or more while clients are >> putting out ~250 milliwatts and with 0 antenna gain. >> >> On Mar 2, 2015 8:58 AM, "Daniel Taylor" <dtay...@vocalabs.com <mailto: >> dtay...@vocalabs.com>> wrote: >> >> Personally? >> If the price were the same, I'd go with 50/50. >> >> That way my uploads would take even less time. >> >> It isn't about the averaged total, it's about how long each event >> takes, and backing up 4GB of files off-site shouldn't have to take >> an hour. >> >> On 02/27/2015 03:11 PM, Scott Helms wrote: >> >> Daniel, >> >> >> "50MB/s might be tough to fill, but even at home I can get >> good use out of the odd 25MB/s upstream burst for a few minutes." >> >> Which would you choose, 50/50 or 75/25? My point is not that >> upstream speed isn't valuable, but merely that demand for it >> isn't symmetrical and unless the market changes won't be in >> the near term. Downstream demand is growing, in most markets >> I can see, much faster than upstream demand. >> >> >> >> Scott Helms >> Vice President of Technology >> ZCorum >> (678) 507-5000 <tel:%28678%29%20507-5000> >> -------------------------------- >> http://twitter.com/kscotthelms >> -------------------------------- >> >> >> >> -- Daniel Taylor VP Operations Vocal >> Laboratories, Inc. >> dtay...@vocalabs.com <mailto:dtay...@vocalabs.com> >> http://www.vocalabs.com/ (612)235-5711 <tel:%28612%29235-5711> >> >> > > -- > Daniel Taylor VP Operations Vocal Laboratories, Inc. > dtay...@vocalabs.com http://www.vocalabs.com/ (612)235-5711 > >