I’m so tired of my 40Mbps upload speeds. Why can I get 1.2Tbps down, but only 40Mbps up? It’s crazy.
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TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 day agoWe need more places offering the same upload as download so people can do these things from home. Here I know spectrum only offers like 10mb upload even if you’ve got like 3gb download.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 day ago
mangaskahn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Because that’s literally the minimum upload speed they can give you. If you’re pulling down data at 1.2Gbps, you’ll be sending back 40Mbps in response traffic. If they could give you less, they would.
Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I actually only go for the 400Mbps plan, and it’s 40Mbps up across all of their plans. I believe it’s some outdated hardware limitation of cable or something, at least that’s what I’ve heard.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
most consumers don’t need upload speeds.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yes, so? So it’s fine to for literally no reason forcibly limit it? Just because old people don’t need 1tb phones doesn’t mean we should just make all iPhones 256mb phones.
yuknowhokat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Everyone with a cloud backup for anything needs a decent upload speed or it takes days to complete a backup
zingo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well the rest (0.1%) needs good upload speed for their home servers. /s
Companies with lots of traffic certainly needs fast uplinks.
So upload speeds are not irrelevant and needs to accompany downloads speed for the health of the Internet infrastructure, as it trickles down to the households eventually.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
At least where I’m at, Spectrum also blocks a lot of ports. Can’t even use FTP!
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You need a new modem that supports the higher upload speed protocol. And having a DOCSIS 3.1 isn’t enough… it has to be a DOCSIS 3.1 that supports the new protocols. I had to switch to a Hitron CODA because my Netgear CM1000 wasn’t enough anymore
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not only upload (I’m so lucky living in France) but CORS, DNS and other stuff that de-decentralise things IMO.