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I have 20Mb up and it's made so much stuff possible that I don't know what I'd do without it.
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Feb 15, 2014 23:34
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Even if you can't think of an immediate use for higher upstream bandwidth, or think that streaming video is an edge case, why would you almost rally against it?
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Feb 16, 2014 16:18
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I just think it's a bit short sighted to not pay attention to upload speeds because nothing uses it today, it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation. If nobody really uploads then have a higher contention on the upstream, but don't cap it at 2Mbps or anything daft like that. A 10Mbps+ upload speeds makes any sort of content uploading quite painless, and home working becomes something that provides as good a client experience as being in an office would in a lot of cases. If faster upload speeds were common then I think you'd soon see services start to use it, and not just the ones that a tiny proportion of the subscriber base care about.
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Feb 16, 2014 16:28
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Anything that doesn't allow a possibly subsidised infrastructure to be further milked isn't a technology that cable companies are interested in.
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Feb 18, 2014 02:57
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But Netflix pay their providers to carry that traffic already, and those providers make the peering agreements. The only reason people like Comcast are getting pissed off and asking for more cash now (apart from it competing with their own services) is that it's a really easy way to show up a lack of investment in their network.
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Feb 24, 2014 17:59
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Don Lapre posted:Netflix wants/needs direct connection to each isp now. Haven't they been doing something like that for a while? I know some ISPs can run "Super HD" and some can't.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:01
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I didn't mean the paying thing, maybe it was putting edge servers inside ISP networks. I can't find the page now but at least in the UK there were ISPs that Super HD worked on, and ones where it didn't.
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Feb 24, 2014 18:06
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Forcing companies to open up their ducts / poles / network to competitors who have absolutely no capital costs is a great way of ensuring nobody invests in infrastructure.
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