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April 21st, 2003, 10:59 PM
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I am specificly paying for unlimited upload and download. So I dont see any reason for them to cap it and if they did I'm gonna get mad.
Unlimited doesn't mean unlimited speed. It means there is no limit to the amount of data you are allowed to transfer in a specified time period. Some ISP's give you an allotted bandwidth for the month and charge a per MB fee if you go over that.
The difference in upload and download is a limitation of the basic technology behind ADSL and has little to do with your ISP. Like ammo said, ADSL is asymmetric, meaning that upstream and downstream speeds are different (i.e., asymmetric). Because residential customers typically spend more time downloading than uploading, ADSL upstream speeds are typically 1/4 to 1/6 the capacity of the downstream. My ADSL connection, for instance, is 1.5 Mb down/256 kb up, which is pretty good for residential DSL. If you want the same upstream and downstream, you need to get SDSL, which is usually reserved for businesses and will probably cost you a few hundred bucks a month. If you get SDSL, you will also have to get a separate line for your telephone service because SDSL uses frequencies usually reserved for normal telephone use.
This article explains it quite well. The bottom line is that you have what you signed up for and getting mad at your ISP isn't going to make it go any faster. I have seen polls where a surprisingly large number of broadband customers report being dissatisfied with their service, but most of the time it's because they didn't do their homework before they ordered and don't understand what they are really supposed to have. I think you probably fall into that category. The moral of the story is do your homework before you run out and order broadband.
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