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Re:Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmet... by scurvy on Saturday January 25, 2020 @09:29PM (#22150001)
It also doesn't make sense to turn your millions of residential cable customers into DDoS cannons. Best to leave them as DDoS pea-shooters.

Though on second thought, it might help out your ratios.

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Re:Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmet... by cma on Saturday January 25, 2020 @10:17PM (#22150172)
If they all get together and increase upstream then they can start selling do’s protection, like the phone companies did for spam calls.
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