In addition to cable being the primary means of providing service in the US which does allow for this, there are two reasons for doing it. First, down is all that is advertised. Up is only mentioned in small print usually. And second, the major ISPs and the content companies have merged so it’s an anti-“piracy” measure. It significantly impacts torrent seeding and hosting sites using residential Internet service.
Comment on FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps
uis@lemmy.world 1 year agoHow is this possible? Most of network hardware is symmetric. It doesn’t make sense.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
austinfloyd@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Cable Internet / DOCSIS splits bandwidth in a way that greatly prioritizes download over upload.
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean network hardware between providers.
botengang@feddit.de 1 year ago
It’s a last-mile thing. Artificially boosts the download numbers which most customers look at.
loudambiance@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Doesn’t DOCSIS 4.0 support 10gbps down and 6gbps up?
mild_deviation@programming.dev 1 year ago
The biggest benefit of DOCSIS 4.0 is the ability to dynamically reallocate bandwidth between upload and download.