[ktsmith]

That wouldn't work though. Verizon sells unbalanced services with larger download capacity than upload capacity. So it's simply not likely/possible that their customers can send matching data for what they are requesting. Additionally, while this might not negatively affect their FIOS customers their DSL customers are on asynchronous connections meaning that the uploaded data will negatively impact their ability to receive data at the same time in effect degrading their ability to stream and the quality of the video they can receive.

[wtallis]

What DSL cusotmers have are asymmetric connections, not half-duplex. Even on ADSL, you can watch a HD video stream while uploading stuff. The only way the upload matters is if it prevents timely delivery of ACKs for the video being downloaded, and that's only a problem on the lowest speed tiers and when you don't have decent QoS.

[ktsmith]

Thanks for catching that error, as I typed out asynchronous I was saying to myself "this isn't right, the a is in the dang acronym" and then I was too lazy to double check.

[joepie91_]

So the client should just keep sending useless UDP traffic in the background even when the customer is not watching anything. I'm sure that can be evened out somehow :)