frannyo 2 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I often wondered, why is upload slower than download? Anyone? Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 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. Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 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. [Geek Speak] 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. [/Geek Speak] I think I liked snobee's answer better! Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 geek speak belongs in a spoiler. Link to post Share on other sites
spook 0 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 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 Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Originally Posted By: thursday. geek speak belongs in a spoiler. I tried that, but I couldn't change the label from spoiler to geek speak. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Danger!! Geek Speak Warning, spoiler! BLAH!! Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Hmmmm, I wanted "Warning, Geek Speak!" SJF - feature request? C priority... [spoiler=Geek Speak]... Link to post Share on other sites
fish&chips 0 Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 Gravity? Obvious when you think about it! Link to post Share on other sites
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