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by cdolan92 4166 days ago
No, you actually dont. All ISPs operate on oversubscribing each available meg. If they did what you are proposing, the only options would be 1 mb up/down stream, 3 MB up/down speed, and 5 mb up/down speed.

Many ISPs have 100-10,000x over subscriptions per meg

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I think asymmetric links and oversubscribed link are apples and oranges.
how so?