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It's nice to have a symmetric connection, but for most people outside of tech, upstream is only stressed when uploading photos. It's rarely advertised outside
by hytdstd 5y ago
It's nice to have a symmetric connection, but for most people outside of tech, upstream is only stressed when uploading photos. It's rarely advertised outside of fine print. I personally love symmetric connections, but in some way the average consumer is subsidizing the costs for me.
- iptrans 5y agoThis isn’t about symmetric connections. It’s about Altice lowering the upstream from 35 Mbps to 5 Mbps. Going from 35 Mbps to 5 Mbps is ridiculous. It effectively lowers the quality of the broadband by bottlenecking connection. You need upstream bandwidth to use your downstream. Having only 5% upstream of your downstream means the connection is at risk of congestion merely from return packets when downloading. Once you saturate your upstream your downstream will become laggy and slow down. Even ignoring headline downstream speeds, 5 Mbps of upstream bandwidth is a piddling amount of bandwidth. It is trivial to exhaust that amount of bandwidth just by normal Internet usage and a video call. The whole thing is just a money grab from Altice by forcing customers to upgrade to more expensive packages just to get working broadband equivalent to what they had before.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoSurely video calls must be the most common upstream killer these days? I am often in calls where coworkers turn off their cameras to avoid dropping off.
- ev1 5y ago> but for most people outside of tech, upstream is only stressed when uploading photos Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, all of these make this untrue. Even GDrive/Dropbox of projects, videos is extremely common these days. It is important that users be allowed to produce in addition to being spoon fed ads at maximum download rate.