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Upload speeds for fiber in Germany are between 5% and 50% of download speeds, most of them 20%. It's strange because for DSL there was a technical reason to do
by stkdump 5y ago
Upload speeds for fiber in Germany are between 5% and 50% of download speeds, most of them 20%. It's strange because for DSL there was a technical reason to do this. Before DSL internet connections were always symmetric. Now it seems that people got used to it and providers probably think they make more money that way? Because the power users who would like fast upload have to buy even faster download speeds.
- wink 5y agoYeah, that sounds like the reason people seem to agree on. Why give the customers 100/100 if you can give them 100/10 and sell 100/100 for a premium? Also for Germany, I still think you're really lucky if you get fiber at all. Sometimes small villages get it and in big cities only in certain neighborhoods.
- stkdump 5y agoI can choose between 50/10, 500/100 and 1000/200. Some providers stop at 1000/50, though.
- bewo001 5y agoThe FTTH GPON standard is inherently asymmetric as well. In densely populated areas it is much cheaper than point to point fiber, so you will see asymmetric speed in contracts for quite some time. And of course marketing people really love price differentiation, and speed asymmetry is one of the few parameters customers actually understand (unlike most QoS offerings).