Mark Foster wrote:
>
> But is it not tragic that these sorts of approaches are needed in the
> first place?

The effects of uncontrolled upstream traffic on a network can be quite
shocking. NZ/TNZ is certainly not unique in having asymmetric service.

> I assume that the historical reasons not to give people Synchronous
> up/down rates are something like 'discouraging people from running
> servers' but surely 128k/2meg is slightly on the extreme?

It's more along the lines of "discouraging people using a
low-cost/low-margin/low-profit service for commercial uses". Sure.. it
works, but not very well.

There are a lot of other reasons, too. Most of which have been hashed
over several times on this list.

> ... and are the people with the ability to do anything about the problem
> actually reading this? Probably not. But to expect end users to
> institute QoS and the like is rediculous - I dont see them documenting
> THIS on their help-pages...

You'd be surprised.

PID: Was there a reason that the customer did not want to move to Xtra
for full rate Jetstream?

aj

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