Simon Byrnand wrote:
> Yes, but is that cause or effect ? Could that perhaps be because they
> CANT upload very much traffic ? ;-)

Yes, indeed... and DSL in NZ has always been steeply asymmetric, even
the full-speed Jetstream. Not that anyone would dare to use that for up
or even downloading anything much.

The low upstream speed chokes Xtra's business as well. Recently, Xtra
launched a digital photo printing service together with Frog Prints. Not
a bad business idea, but how happy will customers be when they discover
that uploading the contents of that 256/512MB SD card takes the best
part of a day and stops all other traffic on their DSL connection? It
makes more sense to burn the pictures onto a CD and sending that to Frog
Prints instead, but Telecom doesn't see the fine irony in that
unfortunately.

As Simon says, there's no technical reason for the low upstream. It's
just an arbitrary marketing decision by Telecom, nothing else.

-- 
Juha
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