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Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> writes:

> PS: Why to US providers have such asymmetric bandwidth? Getting something symmetric
> requires going to a $$$ business rate.

For Cable, the DOCSIS standard is asymmetric by design, but not *that*
asymmetric. I *think* the rest is because providers have to assign
channels independently for upstream and downstream, and if they just
assign them all to downstream they can advertise a bigger number...

-Toke