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Symmetrical broadband is useless for people outside HN buble who don’t run home servers, and asymmetric connections help drive the cost down
by mamon 7y ago
Symmetrical broadband is useless for people outside HN buble who don’t run home servers, and asymmetric connections help drive the cost down
- chatmasta 7y agoIt only appears useless now because nobody has it, so there are no business models that depend on it. Symmetrical broadband enables a lot of really interesting p2p use cases that are otherwise infeasible. Think content distribution, routing, etc. You don’t need to be part of the tech crowd to benefit from p2p software. If everyone had upload speeds as fast as download speeds, “personal clouds” and a “data center in every home” would be real possibilities.