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Re:FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband,... by cavisne on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:39PM (#38104821)
DOCSIS (the Coax protocol) is asymmetric. 10:1 for docsis 3.1 and 10:6 for 4.0

So cable at least will always be a bit asymmetric. A lot of fiber deployments (GPON) are also but the bandwidth limits are much higher so it does not really matter.

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