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Re:Typical U.S. households don’t use most of their bandwidth by sigstoat on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:10PM (#20749333)
> There is a reason why uploads are so limited for consumers.

and that reason is that DOCSIS allocates more channels for down than up. and DOCSIS does that because that's what most consumers want.

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Re:Typical U.S. households don’t use most of their bandwidth by std_throwaway on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @01:20PM (#20749462)
Over copper it's easier to provide asymetric connections because the provider can better manage interference between different cables. When there's no interference problem it's only a question of allocating the bandwidth. Ideally the connection would auto-adjust and provide up to the full bandwidth in both directions instead of constant half/half or 0.9/0.1.
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