On 13/12/11 19:17, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/13/2011 10:39 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> At least around here, it's common that a home user's DSL or cable >> connection's upstream bandwidth is a magnitude smaller than his >> downstream bandwidth. > > Yes. That's why it's correctly called ADSL, with the A standing for > "Asynchronous." Asymmetric. /pedant Rich