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Yawn, only checks download speed.

• bsg75 10y ago
  From a consumer standpoint, that is the more interesting metric. For those of us who frequent HN, it is only half the picture.
  • rconti 10y ago
    Or like 9/10 the picture
• bluedino 10y ago
  Upload is useful in case you're on a connection with severely worse upload than download. Say 10mb down and 384k up. How much uplink do you need to send enough ACK packets for a HD stream?
  • jefurii 10y ago
    You're right, uplink is pretty much useless if you're only consuming Netflix. I guess I'm still infected by 90s-era ideals about the internet being a place for the free exchange of information, where any tech-savvy person should be able to run their own server, etc, etc. I'd at least like to be able to upload photos of my son without my connection slowing to a crawl.