It’s a throughput issue not a bandwidth one. Can’t make requests to download if your uplink is fully saturated.
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Psythik@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Uploading wouldn’t cause a noticeable slowdown for most internet uses, unless OP was also trying to upload something as well. Most ISPs offer a fraction of the upload speed as download and your average person still doesn’t even notice a slowdown.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
LwL@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you’re trying to play a real time online game, you will notice if your upload capacity is hogged elsewhere.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
With cheap routers, bufferbloat is actually more likely to cause a noticeable slowdown with uploading rather than downloading, since your upload is usually much lower it’s much easier to max it out unless you have a powerful router and/or some good QoS rules defined.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Back with old DSL and especially dialup it was a much bigger issue.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I was the sysadmin for a ISP for over ten years. When you max your upload it slows everything down.
Zetta@mander.xyz 5 days ago
Definitely not standard for the US, but I max my fiber upload all the time and it just has zero impact on my download speeds.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Modern connections are much faster
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah they are but most people in the country don’t have 1 gig up and 1 gig down. Locally most people have less the 1 meg upload. Pointing out exceptions doesn’t invalidate what I said.
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yup I have 1400 down / 40 up with my Fixed 5G home connection. It’s so disproportionate but still way faster than cable with no arbitrary data cap.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Who has 1meg internet? That wouldn’t be usable as websites and apps would simply timeout trying to load. It probably would just be flagged as no internet by modern devices. Even DSL connections are much faster. It isn’t uncommon to see something like 20/20.