@CursedSilicon

Ah yeah. “Community Antenna Television”, I believe it was originally called.

What about ADSL?

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@argv_minus_one @fivetonsflax @futurebird That one I'm surprisingly less familiar with why it's asymmetric, despite growing up with it in Australia

I'd defer to telco nerds on that ;-;

@CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @fivetonsflax @futurebird
It was asymmetric because they want to partition the frequency spectrum used into separate upward and downward bands, to avoid the computationally heavy need for full echo cancellation, and they both expected and wanted end users to be mostly consumers of content, not producers.
There was no _techincal_ reason it couldn't be reverse in the other direction, or fully symmetric (which existed: SDSL).
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@brouhaha I once heard that the asymmetry of ADSL is because the hardware in your home is cheap shit with bad SNR, but the hardware at your ISPs is much more performant. But now that I think about it, it seems it’s the wrong way around.
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@oscherler @brouhaha @CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @fivetonsflax @futurebird

As somebody involved in the first xDSL installations in Denmark:

It was because 1/3 of all bits on the internet are pink and flow in one direction only.

Still the case.

@phloggen @oscherler @brouhaha @CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @fivetonsflax @futurebird I’m not sure that I understand this and less sure that I want to know… and yet I ask anyway…

@josh @oscherler @brouhaha @CursedSilicon @argv_minus_one @fivetonsflax @futurebird

The customers were much more focused on download speeds, than upload speeds, because, then as now, 1/3 of the bits were porn.