While there is plenty of things that can be blamed on cable providers, the allocation is asymmetric RF channels it's not something that they decide to do specif

While there is plenty of things that can be blamed on cable providers, the allocation is asymmetric RF channels it's not something that they decide to do specifically to mess up with clients but actually part of DOCSIS standard that is made by CableLabs (yea.. with input from cable companies, yet...) . A lot of todays restriction are derived from dark ages when cable was tv and not internet. IIRC till DOCSIS 3.1 (or 3.0?) data downstream was actually framed inside mpeg segments (or something like this) . They did manage to incrementally squeeze much more out of their infra (coax) compared to what is achievable with twisted pair. Last house that I rented had 30+ years old coax drop that were handling 1000/30 just fine and at my current house i get 1200/30. Yea, it sucks that upstream is limited but sometimes legacy tech is legacy tech and decisions must be made in order to properly serve all the clients on plant with all the gazillion of different devices that they have Edit: nice old discussion about upstream channels allocation in DOCSIS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22572536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22572536