RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

["Gary Wardell" <gwardell () gwsystems co il>]

>  From the consumer standpoint, I *really* don't think it's too much to ask that when I have the occasional 10 gig 
> image to upload that it takes me << 
> than a full day. This has nothing really to do with symmetry, per se. It's the need to adapt to what the traffic is 
> *actually* doing at peak times, 
> regardless of the average up/down byte count.

When I was a COX customer they took the average upstream traffic.  Thus I could burst over the upstream limit, for a 
while, but not a long while.  They would eventually clamp me.

Gary