Not really. For example cable internet (and ADSL) goes thru cable (shocking knowledge, I know). Cable have limited bandwidth, and as it is just a single cable, not RX/TX pair as it is for ethernet and it has limited bandwidth
Which essentially means you have X bandwidth to distribute between upstream and downstream. And it's far more profitable to sell X 40/10 Mbit connections vs selling a bunch of 25/25 Mbit ones, where most people there won't be using upload all that much.
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by nerdbert on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @06:26PM
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> Cable have limited bandwidth, and as it is just a single cable, not RX/TX pair as it is for ethernet and it has limited bandwidth
DOCSIS 4.0 supports 10Gb/s down and 6Gb/s up using that same coaxial cable that's been in your house for decades.
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by FormerBandmate on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:48PM
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Fiber doesn't do that. I think it's a cable issue tbh
As opposed to today, where connects have terrible uploads speed because ISPs don't want you to host servers.
I've heard of people getting gigabit down, but only 16 mbps up.