>Of course people don’t utilize their upload speed: it’s miserably slow! The average internet user's bandwidth usage is always going to be asymmetrical, since

>Of course people don’t utilize their upload speed: it’s miserably slow! The average internet user's bandwidth usage is always going to be asymmetrical, since the average internet user is downloading a lot more than they produce. One or two streaming movies on something like Netflix (15% of worldwide downstream usage by itself) will completely blow away a few video calls. Try to enumerate the use cases for high upload rates, and you find that most of them simply won't apply to most users.