This 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 effectiv

This 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.