[AusNOG] Why not Symmetric ingress and egress?

[craig at askings.com.au]

> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at cisco.com> wrote:
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> no argument that more return bandwidth is a desirable thing as for
> something
>> 'futureproof' there are clearly already people who could use >8Mbps
>> today.
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> Like, for example, cloud backup services (for your home computers), which
> are a total waste of time with the current uplink speeds (and quotas).
>


Assuming they know that TCP window scaling is an important thing to have.
At the office we trialed one provider and they couldn't get more that
1mbit/s up as their client software didn't set correct bits during the TCP
handshake.

Craig.