Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

Fri Feb 27 17:37:10 UTC 2015

On 2015-02-27 12:27, Naslund, Steve wrote:
> That statement completely confuses me.  Why is asymmetry evil?  Does that not reflect what "Joe Average User" actually needs and wants? The statement that the average users *MUST* have the same pipes going UP as he does going DOWN does not reflect reality at all.  Do a lot of your users want to stream 4K video to their friends UHD TV?  Given that all transmission media has some sort of bandwidth limit it would seem to me that asymmetry is actually more fair for the user since he gets more of what he needs which is download speed.  There is no technical reason that it can't be symmetric it is just a reflection of what the market wants.  As an ISP I can tell you that a lot more people complaint about their download speeds than their upload speeds.  Do you think that you (or the average home user) would be happier with 27.5 down and 27.5 up vs your 50 down and 5 up you have today?  Don't tell me you want 50 down and 50 up because that is a different bandwidth total that requi!
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> Do you actually believe that average users are suffering with a 5 mbps upstream?  I don't. I just don't see the average user "freely interchanging ideas" at more than 5 mbps.  I don't feel like "Big Brother" forced me to watch Netflix and my next door neighbor just doesn't provide a lot of engaging HD content that I just must see.
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I guess I know more than the "average" number of creative types who 
might be interested in things like video collaboration, music/video 
recording, sharing around large hunks of content to edit/modify/etc., 
and of course my previously mentioned hobby horse, backing it all up in 
a timely manner to someplace maybe not in the path of seasonal 
hurricanes :).

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