From the Daily WTF, especially a good one, as more sysadmin than dev stuff this time.

The phone rang and the boss told to drop everything and work on this issue: a client was on the verge of dropping their contract because no one from any department — sales, customer service, engineering, and so on — could resolve this problem to their satisfaction. Carl had to figure out a way to satisfy one of their largest customers …

Ticket 8804-2234
Subject Upload taking longer than download
Product Area Operations Functional Area Documents
Priority E1 Status New
Assignee Carl M------ Assigned 4/28/06 10:18 AM

Language All Logon All
Org All PO Number N/A
Customer 8804

Documents are taking much longer to upload than download. Timing was
tested as follows:

1Meg Upload - 40 sec
4Meg Upload - 160 sec

1Meg Download - 8 sec
4Meg Download - 30 sec

This is unacceptable and needs to be corrected. Problem only exists at locations with an asymmetric DSL connection.

Damn, I would be glad with such an “asymmetric” DSL.