>Even supposedly "fast" home connections often don't pass muster
>when it comes to latency/jitter and or consistency with bandwidth,
>since they're WAYS shared pipes upstream and almost always
>over-subscribed just to make the numbers work.

Also the 'fast' home connections tend to be asymmetrical in speed. To the 
house is fast, but back is slow ... 

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