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It's all to do with costs. Put simply it costs your ISP more to provide you with more bandwidth, whether that is upload or download. Most home users use about 10 times more down bandwidth than up, so the ISP's set up their restrictions (plans) around that.

 

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This asymmetry is so prevalent in the consumer market that hardware vendors are building asymmetrical equipment. The ADSL system is asymmetric with the maximum theoretical speed of ADSL 1 being 7Mb/s down and only 800Kb/s up. ADSL2+ gets 24Mb/s down but still only 1Mb/s up.

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I think I liked snobee's answer better!

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 Originally Posted By: snobee
I think it's coz up is up and it's a struggle, where as down is just.. you know like down, free-wheeling and it's like faster.
You know - gravity... I think.


makes sense to me
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