Re: 10MB broadband for me then!

[David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Harris wrote:

> Of course the reason we want higher upstream speeds (and precisely the
> reason they don't want to give us higher upstream speeds) is so that
> we can
> run home servers and they are more than aware of this and are trying
> to find
> implementable ways to nobble the home server user.

I'd actually suspect that:
a) they're playing serious marketing user-aquisition games and the
public think that 10+384 is better than 8+4

b) they want to maximise downstream so you can eventually subscribe to
'pay per view' services like "watch last night's Eastenders for
50p"

and they actually don't give a flying fig about geeks running servers :)
(l33t users sharing warez _may_ be on the radar but I doubt it)

David