I’ll play. Without assuming where anyone is from, I’ll add that the vast majority of US residential Internet connections, especially those in rural areas, are not only slower than they are in much of Europe (for example) but are commonly asymmetrical, too. Meaning even if someone has a gigabit connection, often it’s only 1Gbps in one direction for Americans while the maximum upstream throughput may be closer to 50Mbps. Even a top-of-the-line, 5 figure Cisco or Juniper router can’t do much to improve that situation for the end user when someone starts uploading large video files.
That said, fortunately or unfortunately (as our President says), incest isn’t exclusive to Alabama,
That was the theory once upon a time, but with the incease of working from home, schooling from home, the sheer number of people who are streaming etc. it’s increasingly common for people to need solid up as well as down.
Nope mine’s 1 GB down 1 GB up I’ve checked and it is. True I’ll probably never use the upload capability to anything nothing about maybe 4% of its capacity but that’s why the company can offer 1 gigabit up.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’ll play. Without assuming where anyone is from, I’ll add that the vast majority of US residential Internet connections, especially those in rural areas, are not only slower than they are in much of Europe (for example) but are commonly asymmetrical, too. Meaning even if someone has a gigabit connection, often it’s only 1Gbps in one direction for Americans while the maximum upstream throughput may be closer to 50Mbps. Even a top-of-the-line, 5 figure Cisco or Juniper router can’t do much to improve that situation for the end user when someone starts uploading large video files.
That said, fortunately or unfortunately (as our President says), incest isn’t exclusive to Alabama,
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So… we shouldn’t learn about things because the internet in the US sucks?
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I believe every internet connection in the world is asymmetric. Most people download way more than they upload.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
TCP ACK packages are tiny compared to the payload. I’m not sure this is really your issue.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes but my point was that some people don’t even have a choice.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That was the theory once upon a time, but with the incease of working from home, schooling from home, the sheer number of people who are streaming etc. it’s increasingly common for people to need solid up as well as down.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Why would you need a big upload capacity for streaming?
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Nope mine’s 1 GB down 1 GB up I’ve checked and it is. True I’ll probably never use the upload capability to anything nothing about maybe 4% of its capacity but that’s why the company can offer 1 gigabit up.