Balancing, customer needs, limitation of hardware/infrastructure. Copper doesn’t handle symmetrical download and upload as well (this is where fiber comes in). There can be too much noise resulting in degraded consistency. Its prone to interference and leaks. To improve reliability, you get asymmetrical plans. Most people just want download. Which has historically been the cheaper choice. An example local to my area, a home plan will be 800 down and 20 up. A business plan will be 500 down and 300 up. The business plan costs more.
Lol, all of Spectrum’s plans (outside gig) say “Typical Upload: 10Mbs or higher”
Why is it so hard for ISPs to provide a higher upload speed
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It’s so ridiculous when other countries do things that really put the “America #1” to shame.
Because then we go, “Well ackshaully we can’t do that because…” BS excuse and jerking off major corporations.
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I hate the “we can’t do it” excuse more than anything. If the richest country on earth can’t do it, how the fuck are other countries doing it?
Sonic internet provides 10Gb up and down. I have no idea how they do it, but I love them.
Yeah I get 370 mbps down but only 10 mbps up why can’t I at least have around 50 up? Is it really that hard or just capitalism? lol
Mines about the same so I assume it’s intentionally being throttled.
imho they’ve always shittily capped uploads primarily cause they dont want you hosting servers which could eat up tons of bandwidth.
and again, i want to reiterate, this is IMHO, not something i am saying is a fact.
Balancing, customer needs, limitation of hardware/infrastructure. Copper doesn’t handle symmetrical download and upload as well (this is where fiber comes in). There can be too much noise resulting in degraded consistency. Its prone to interference and leaks. To improve reliability, you get asymmetrical plans. Most people just want download. Which has historically been the cheaper choice. An example local to my area, a home plan will be 800 down and 20 up. A business plan will be 500 down and 300 up. The business plan costs more.