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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
I suspect the upgrade was marketing led based on what Infinity offers as upstream. The amount of science would be limited to whether or not the waved finger should be licked.
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I can't help but agree. I also strongly feel that the Systems Architect(s) were very much financially constrained. The alternative proposition is that they are fools, and I find that hard to believe.
Forgive my ignorance, but based on my limited understanding of DOCSIS, I believe that asymmetry is by far its greatest weakness, and the magnitude of asymmetry is only likely to trend upwards with time?
Also, my understanding is that the overall ratio of traffic is trending towards an increase in upstream, as more and more users discover the joys of legitimate file sharing through p2p? (Or perhaps this is counterbalanced by a proportional increase in legitimate downloads from Usenet, along with video streaming)?
In any case, is there not an argument for an increase of the magnitude of traffic shaping for p2p? (Ignoring for the moment all the problems associated with the misidentification of packets.)
Frankly, if it were up to me, I would drop every single Bittorrent packet (that I could recognise).
Phil.