Nvyseal, on Mar 16 2010, 09:33 PM, said:
Why do all these companies limit your upload so bad?
I've been wondering the same thing for years. FWIW, I've found two answers that are plausible. But I'm not claiming either are true, pure speculation. One is supposition, the other is on wiki. I'd take the wiki as truth but what do I know.
The first is that ISP's and the owners of large nodes cater to two different, and differing, sets of customers. On one hand is the end user at his/her PC. The other is the server market. If speed was synchronous, up and down, then any end user could turn their box into a server and the relatively affordable rates of broadband would negate the market for mid to high-end hosting.
This next one seems more plausible if only because I don't have the tech knowledge to refute/understand it.
ADSL.