Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

[Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk>]

fttc in uk works great for client code push remote installs , even faster than some offices since the fibre nodes are 
less contended.
seen 18mb up work fine and sustained with voip in parallel as well
colin

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On 3 Mar 2015, at 16:20, Tim Franklin <tim () pelican org> wrote:

> > I meant that on the Internet as a whole it is unusual for such speeds to
> > actually be realized in practice due to various issues.
> >
> > 8-10Mb/s seems to be what one can expect without going to distributed
> > protocols.
>
> Really?  I have 2 x VDSL (40/10) to my house, running MLPPP.  I can get a sustained 60M down or 15M up on a single 
> stream without a lot of difficulty.  It does typically need both ends to be aware of window scaling, or you start to 
> run up against the LFN problem, but other than that it's nothing beyond regular HTTP, FTP, SCP, CIFS, ...
>
> 15M upstream *utterly* transforms working from home where all the files I'm working on are on a remote file server.  
> Autosave is no longer a cue for a 5-10 minute tea-break.
>
> Regards,
> Tim.