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Old 12-11-2004, 15:47   #4
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Re: Telewest upload
I'm willing to bet those ISPs in Sweden use fibre to the home, rather than DOCSIS-based cable services. A better comparison would be with cable services in the US, where it's quite common to see 8Mbit download speeds combined with only 128kb or 256kbit up.

Faster upload on cable will have to wait until NTL and Telewest upgrade us all to fibre (never!), or when everybody's converted to DOCSIS 2.0 (ask BBKing about that one...)

The thing is, upload is only important for a very small minority of people. It's only really hardcore P2Pers and people who want to host games who are after it, and the cablecos are quite happy to let them drift away to DSL.
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