Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Fri Feb 27 17:34:26 UTC 2015

On 2015-02-27 12:13, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> Consider a group of 10 users, who all create new content.  If each one
> creates at a constant rate of 5 mbits, they need 5 up.  But to download
> all the new content from the other 9, they need close to 50 down.
>
> And when you expand to several billion people creating new content, you need
> a *huge* pipe down.

Ok, I hadn't thought about it from that perspective. The scenario you 
laid out does make sense.

> You'd be better off arguing from the basis of protocols and applications that
> need symmetric bandwidth (for instance, heavy use of Skype and similar, but
> with HD video - you'll need as big a pipe for your outbound video as you need
> for the inbound). Similar considerations will apply to at least some gaming
> models, bittorrent, and so on. You already noted the remote backup issue - keep
> focusing on that sort of thing.

Remote backup is the big bugaboo for me, having had 2 SSDs and a couple 
spinny platters eat themselves in the last year or so.  It's a really 
irksome situation when I can, e.g. backup my entire work machine's /home 
partition to my home server in, say, X hours, but to back my home 
workstation's /home partition (a similar amount of cruft) up to the TSM 
server at work takes 10-15X hours, it makes backing up the home machine 
remotely (something the wife harps on incessantly after the crashes of 
last summer :) ) pretty impractical.  And yes, I know what "incremental 
backups" are (TSM, remember? :) ) but jumpstarting that first full 
backup is a stumbling block to the whole scenario.   *sigh*

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