I know that with DSL, upload and download compete with each other. My point was more that, if you control the last mile copper, you have the choice of sacrific

I know that with DSL, upload and download compete with each other. My point was more that, if you control the last mile copper, you have the choice of sacrificing download so people have better upload. In conjunction with a static IP, this could be great for home servers, at (presumably) not so high a cost. So, I wondered if they had made that choice, and they didn't. I can understand that: most customers don't want to give up half their download bandwidth so they can share more with bit-torrent, or host a server they would never care to configure anyway. Lack of education and tragedy of the commons say that download is the priority. Maybe we would have been better off if symmetric bandwidth was simply mandated by law ("thou shalt propose symmetric bandwidth at no higher cost than asymetric bandwith")?