Upstream BW completely consumed by protocol overhead?
I'm considering moving from my current PN ADSL to unlimited fibre extra. I get an easy 18MBps/1Mbps connection at the moment but it's finally feeling like not enough.
I cannot find on PN's packages pages where it says what the upstream bandwidth is... am I just being blind, or is PN trying not to tell us?
Anyway, I read a few forum threads and from what I can see, it would be 2MBps. Really???
If I actually got 76MBps downstream, given about 3% (that's on the high side I know, but easily possible with smaller tcp transfers) then that 2MBps upstream would be entirely consumed just by the protocol overhead; SYNs and ACKs and such. Am I wrong? And that's not even thinking about running one protocol over another.
Which makes it largely useless if I'm using something that actually needs data in both directions. And I do! The majority is down of course, but without sufficient upstream to go along with it, things fall apart.
So, basically I'm asking: Am I correct in the above, and if so, what on Earth is PN thinking with only 2MBps up on a 76MBps downstream line? Obviously if I am correct, I won't waste my money 'upgrading'. At least not here. It would quite possibly give me a worse service than I have for some things.
If I am wrong (and I hope I am, somehow), please explain why.
Got it, thank you.
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PN, why not just put the numbers up front, so we don't have to dig for them? That 'up to 19Mb' isn't mentioned anywhere else that I could find. I mean, it is critical information!
I must admit I mostly ignored the 'legal bit', but come on - you're trying to sell this product, aren't you? At least tell us what you're selling. It's frustrating. Putting the information in the main places I'm reading would have saved me quite a bit of time trying to find it out, having to ask here, etc.
If I was buying a car, I wouldn't expect to have to read the legal contract terms to find out what engine it had!
/rant 
