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> I don't buy the 'no demand for it' line. There is measurably no demand even if you look at fiber. Most fiber deployments are GPON which is asymmetrical as w
by the_mitsuhiko 7y ago
> I don't buy the 'no demand for it' line.
There is measurably no demand even if you look at fiber. Most fiber deployments are GPON which is asymmetrical as well. They even make symmetrical deployments which however means you can’t (in theory) use much of your upload. However since almost nobody uses their upload nobody notices.
In Austria even fiber uses a very low upload (500/70, 1000/100 are common) because cable also doesn’t have more and there is little customer demand to increase upload.
- pdkl95 7y agoThere is no demand because of the limited upload bandwidth and ISPs only providing limited IPv4 addresses. When customers are forced use NAT with very little upstream bandwidth, they are de facto a lower-class network host that cannot use many types of network software. I personally stopped working on a few P2P communication and personal server projects in the late 90s. Letting people communicate and share files with their friends directly with their own local private server could have been a way to fight back against the FAANGs centralizing the internet. Unfortunately, the limitations from the ISPs made this impossible for most people.