Something i’d like to see ISPs do

Well actually, there are several things i’d like to see ISPs do. For example, i’d like to see them stop misusing the word “unlimited” for a start, but that’s not what this blog post is about. Rather, this is about upload and download speeds.

As it is now, you will probably purchase a subscription to a certain ISPs broadband package. Usually packages are seperated from the download speeds tha they offer, e.g – 2Mb, 10Mb, 20Mb, the list goes on.

But what about instead of selling a package as “10 Megabit Download”, what about something along the lines of “10 Megabits of Bandwidth”? With this allocated 10Mb/s of Bandwidth, you could divide it in to what suited you best. With online video sites such as YouTube becoming more and more popular, people are going to start needing faster upload speeds. Why? So that they don’t have to spend half an hour uploading a video.

I mean imagine it, if you were a heavy YouTube user, wouldn’t it be great to allocate your bandwidth accordingly? Instead of having an incredably fast download speed with a pitiful upload speed, you could divide it 50/50. For example, if you had 10Mb/s of bandwidth, you could allocate 5Mb/s of bandwidth for uploads and 5Mb/s for downloads. Wouldn’t it be great to upload a video just as quickly as you could download one?

So what does everyone think? This was just a quick idea, but would anyone (Techies in particular) like to have the option of where to allocate your bandwidth in terms of upload/download speeds?

~ by pokeh on July 2, 2009.