Why the poor upload speeds?

Vulcan · 3 Jun 2007 at 23:42

Why do cable ISP's provide such a low upload speed?

Is it to do with hardware at the exchange or do they just not see the need?

For example, Virgins XL package offers 20/0.75 mbps, I would prefere 10/10, or even 5/5.

dbmzk1 · 4 Jun 2007 at 00:13

Three reasons really.

1) Upload is expensive.
2) The network was not designed to upload much.
3) They don't see the point as the majority of people don't upload much.

Bacardi · 4 Jun 2007 at 00:21

Longbow said:
Is it to do with hardware

Hardware would be my guess.

I doubt the original designers of the cable networks saw the need for lots of traffic going back up the wire.

HangTime · 4 Jun 2007 at 00:44

It's a home connection, which basically means that the vast majority of traffic will be downstream.

Providing a high upload would encourage users to run servers (FTP servers, webservers etc) which in general would be bad news for the ISP as they tend to generate a lot of traffic.

If you need a high upload speed your only option as a home user is 2mbit SDSL; however this is very expensive. Although I believe some of the LLU ADSL2 operaters such as Be offer up to 1.3mbit upload which isn't too bad.

Hyper · 4 Jun 2007 at 00:46

Be Pro package offers a 2.5mb upload speed :eek:

https://www.bethere.co.uk/broadbandoffice.do

dbmzk1 · 4 Jun 2007 at 02:08

Hyper said:
Be Pro package offers a 2.5mb upload speed

https://www.bethere.co.uk/broadbandoffice.do

and it's only £3 more expensive than Virgin 20mb :mad:

I think I'm going to have to phone Virgin and have a few words!