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Originally Posted by etccarmageddon
yes but when you compare it to comparible ADSL products that Wandaoo and others offer (i.e. high speed, under £20 a month and small monthly GB allowance).........
- do those products have such a low upload speed?
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Most of the sub £20 high speed ADSL offerings have a 1 or 2 Gb per month cap. They are aimed at low usage customers and may have a much higher upload speed than cable lower tiers but the majority of users will never take advantage of this higher upload speed. ADSL is more of a symetrical method of providing broadband than cable is. Contention on ADSL has no effect until the signals hit the exchange. Both ADSL and cable have their good points and bad points. The customer chooses which service to buy based on how well the different offerings suit his/her usage requirements. The speeds that ISPs offer, both upload and download, have to be within a range that the infrastructure can sustain without undue effect on customers and at a price that generates enough profit to maintain and expand the infrastructure whilst still giving a return to shareholders.