From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 20/01/2026 09:46, Marc Haber wrote:   
   > but the   
   > fiber operators artificially emulate the absurdly asymmetric plans   
   > from the legacy technologies,   
   The asymmetry results from traffic analysis done in the early days of   
   'consumer Internet'.   
      
   Consumers - er - *consume* content. They rarely produce any. Ergo the   
   technologies were designed to give the best possible 'customer   
   experience' with limited bandwidth.   
   It's not a bug, it really is a feature...   
      
      
   --   
   "An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out   
   only in others...”   
      
   Tom Wolfe   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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