[AusNOG] Why not Symmetric ingress and egress?

[Stephen Carter]

Hi Guys,

Sorry for a possible very dumb question.

Does anyone know of the reason why the NBN is being released with different Up and Down speeds?

Some possible reasons that I can think of are (but can't validate as I don't personally agree):

a)      Possible cheaper CPE as transmission strength on cheap CPE is more attainable

b)      Transit Costs (can't understand why at this scale)

c)       Limitations of their chosen design

Please be gentle :)

Thanks

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