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Originally Posted by Ben Taylor
What you're forgetting is how the network works. ISPs only pay for the actual traffic cost on data uploaded to the internet rather than downloaded. So you uploading lots of data costs them a lot more money, this is why upload speeds are relatively low.
To be honest you are going to have to accept the lower upload speeds, unless you want to pay for a leased line or SDSL....
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of course thats only true once the data goes outside the Virgin Media network, inside theres zero (artificial) cost.
funny you hightlight the very reason the DOCSIS kit is designed to allow better down than up, and thats the old cashcow leased lines.
that cash cow model is so 90's and its about time that limit was lifted to help encurage UK tech growth , it worked for the US markets, and why we see so many US based cheap and cheerful Co-Location companys there.
the current DOCSIS-2 upload rates are more than good enough to give us usable (upto)1.4 mbit, its the pure profit accounting monkeys and the Virgin Media tower not being techy informed that is killing growth in the UK markets.
it was proved that the current equipment, ntl250 etc can give good upload rates when they tested the 20mbit download, and for a short time before they locked it down, the uploading was great, as reported by several people reading this board right now.
the one report here for the DOCSIS-3 50mbit/s closed tests using the
Touchstone Wideband Modem
http://www.arrisi.com/consumer_produ...User_Guide.pdf
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...7#post34159347
"I have just finished an NTL trial for 50mb, i was asked to keep quite about it but apparantly its now going public.
At its best i was getting 56mb down and
6.5mb up althought the upstream is now set at 1.5mb. I believe its a £50 for 50mb service when its released"